Psalms 78:33
And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years in haste.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
In Context
32In all these things they sinned still: and they believed not for his wondrous works.
34When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and came to him early in the morning.
Cross References
Numbers 14:29fin the wilderness shall your carcasses lie. All you that were numbered from twenty years old and upward, and have murmured against me,
Numbers 14:35For as I have spoken, so will I do to all this wicked multitude, that hath risen up together against me: in this wilderness shall it faint away and die.
Deuteronomy 2:14And the time that we journeyed from Cadesbarne till we passed over the torrent Zared, was thirty-eight years: until all the generation of the men that were fit for war was consumed out of the camp, as the Lord had sworn:
Job 5:6Nothing upon earth is done without a voice cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground.
Psalms 90:7For in thy wrath we have fainted away: and are troubled in thy indignation.
Ecclesiastes 1:13And I proposed in my mind to seek and search out wisely concerning all things that are done under the sun. This painful occupation hath God given to the children of men, to be exercised therein.
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 →