Psalms 78:33
Therefore He ended their days as a breath, and their years in terror.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
In Context
32For all this they sinned still, and believed not in His wondrous works.
34When He slew them, then they would inquire after Him, and turn back and seek God earnestly.
Cross References
Numbers 14:29your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness, and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, ye that have murmured against Me;
Numbers 14:35I the LORD have spoken, surely this will I do unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against Me; in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.'
Deuteronomy 2:14And the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were thirty and eight years; until all the generation, even the men of war, were consumed from the midst of the camp, as the LORD swore unto them.
Job 5:6For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
Psalms 90:7For we are consumed in Thine anger, and by Thy wrath are we hurried away.
Ecclesiastes 1:13And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven; it is a sore task that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.
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 →