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For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
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A Past Judgment, Not a Present Wrath
Multiple commentators, especially Charles Spurgeon, emphasize that this verse describes the specific historical judgment on the Israelites in the wilderness. For Christians, God's consuming anger has been turned away by Christ's sacrifice. Believers may experience God's fatherly discipline, but they are not subject to the condemning wrath described here.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For we are consumed by your anger — That is, Death — the cutting off of the human race — may be regarded as an expression of your d…
19th Century
Anglican
We. — The change to the first person plural shows that the poet was not merely moralizing on the brevity of human life, but utteri…
Baptist
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
Yes, if the Lord releases even a little of His wrath for a wh…
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16th Century
Protestant
For we fail by thy anger. Moses deliberately mentions God's anger, for it is necessary for people to be deeply affected by this, so that t…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For we are consumed by your anger Kimchi applies this to the Jews in captivity; but it is to be understood of the Is…
The afflictions of the saints often come from God's love; but the rebukes of sinners, and of believers for their sins, must be seen coming from the…
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