Psalms 78:33
So their days were wasted like a breath, and their years in trouble.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
In Context
32For all this they went on sinning even more, and had no faith in his great wonders.
Cross References
Numbers 14:29Your dead bodies will be stretched out in this waste land; and of all your number, all those of twenty years old and over who have been crying out against me,
Numbers 14:35I the Lord have said it, and this I will certainly do to all this evil people who have come together against me: in this waste land destruction will come on them, and death will be their fate.
Deuteronomy 2:14Thirty-eight years had gone by from the time when we came away from Kadesh-barnea till we went over the stream Zered; by that time all the generation of the men of war among us were dead, as the Lord had said.
Job 5:6For evil does not come out of the dust, or trouble out of the earth;
Psalms 90:7We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath.
Ecclesiastes 1:13And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:10-40
Wonders Wrought in Behalf of Israel; The Crimes of the Israelites; 9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. 10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; 11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had showed them. 12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as a heap. 14 In the daytime… Read the whole commentary →