Psalms 78:33
Therefore he caused their days to come to an end in nought, and their years in dread.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
In Context
32With all this they sinned again, and believed not in his wonders.
34When he slew them, then did they seek him, and they returned and inquired earnestly after God.
Cross References
Numbers 14:29In this wilderness shall your carcasses fall, and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward; ye who have murmured against me;
Numbers 14:35I the Lord have spoken it, surely, this will I do unto all this evil congregation that have assembled against me: in this wilderness shall they be spent, and therein shall they die.
Deuteronomy 2:14And the time which we came from Kadesh-barnea', until we had passed over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were spent from out the midst of the camp, as the Lord had sworn unto them.
Job 5:6For wrong doth not come forth out of the dust, neither doth trouble grow up out of the ground;
Psalms 90:7For [thus] are we consumed by thy anger, and by thy fury are we terrified.
Ecclesiastes 1:13And I directed my heart to inquire and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens: this is an evil employment which God hath given to the sons of man to busy themselves 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 →