Psalms 78:33
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in terror.
Revised Version 1895
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 inquired after him: and they returned and sought God early.
Cross References
Numbers 14:29your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which 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 of the men of war were consumed from the midst of the camp, as the LORD sware unto them.
Job 5:6For affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
Psalms 90:7For we are consumed in thine anger, and in thy wrath are we troubled.
Ecclesiastes 1:13And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail 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 →