Psalms 78:33
And He consumeth in vanity their days, And their years in trouble.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
In Context
32With all this they have sinned again, And have not believed in His wonders.
34If He slew them, then they sought Him, And turned back, and sought God earnestly,
Cross References
Numbers 14:29in this wilderness do your carcases fall, even all your numbered ones, to all your number, from a son of twenty years and upward, who have murmured against Me;
Numbers 14:35I [am] Jehovah, I have spoken; if I do not this to all this evil company who are meeting against me; — in this wilderness they are consumed, and there they die.'
Deuteronomy 2:14'And the days which we have walked from Kadesh-Barnea until that we have passed over the brook Zered, [are] thirty and eight years, till the consumption of all the generation of the men of battle from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah hath sworn to them;
Job 5:6For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.
Psalms 90:7For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled.
Ecclesiastes 1:13And I have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that hath been done under the heavens. It [is] a sad travail God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.
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 →