“It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.”
Divine destruction is reversed: "They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of your face." The enemies' destruction of the vine (Israel's suffering) becomes the occasion for a prayer that the enemies perish. The phrase "rebuke of your face" suggests that God's mere disapproval is sufficient to destroy the enemies.
Church Fathers on Psalms 80:16
1. ...If perchance things obscure demand the office of an interpreter, those things which are evident ought to require of me the office of a reader. The song here is of the Advent of the Lord and of our Saviour Jesus Christ, and of His vineyard. But the singer of the song is that Asaph, as far as does appear, enlightened and converted, by whose name ye know the synagogue to be signified. Lastly, the title of the Psalm is: “For the end in behalf of them that shall be changed;”…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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