Psalms 78:33
Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
In Context
32For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.
34When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.
Cross References
Numbers 14:29Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have complained against me,
Numbers 14:35I, the LORD, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”
Deuteronomy 2:14The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea until we had come over the brook Zered were thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the middle of the camp, as the LORD swore to them.
Job 5:6For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
Psalms 90:7For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
Ecclesiastes 1:13I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
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 →