Burned Burnt Countenance Cut Face Fire It's Perish Rebuke Waste Wrath
80:16 [It is] burned with fire, [it is] cut down: they perish at the {m} rebuke of thy countenance.
(m) Only when you are angry and not of the sword of the enemy.
80:16 They - Thy people, signified by the vine. So now he passes from the metaphor to the thing designed by it.
80:8-16 The church is represented as a vine and a vineyard. The root of this vine is Christ, the branches are believers. The church is like a vine, needing support, but spreading and fruitful. If a vine do not bring forth fruit, no tree is so worthless. And are not we planted as in a well-cultivated garden, with every means of being fruitful in works of righteousness? But the useless leaves of profession, and the empty boughs of notions and forms, abound far more than real piety. It was wasted and ruined. There was a good reason for this change in God's way toward them. And it is well or ill with us, according as we are under God's smiles or frowns. When we consider the state of the purest part of the visible church, we cannot wonder that it is visited with sharp corrections. They request that God would help the vine. Lord, it is formed by thyself, and for thyself, therefore it may, with humble confidence, be committed to thyself.
Burned Burnt Countenance Cut Face Fire Perish Rebuke Vine Waste Wrath
Burned Burnt Countenance Cut Face Fire Perish Rebuke Vine Waste Wrath
