Psalms 78:33
31 God’s anger flared against them, and He put to death their strongest and subdued the young men of Israel.
32 In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.
So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.
34 When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.
35 And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.
- KJV
- Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
- WEB
- Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
- ASV
- Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.
- DARBY
- And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
- BLB
- And He finished off their days in futility, and their years in terror.
- ÅB
- Derfor lot han deres dager svinne bort i tomhet og deres år i forskrekkelse.
- OTB
- Så Han endte deres dager i tomhet,
Og deres år i plutselig skrekk. - B1930
- Derfor lot han deres dager svinne bort i tomhet og deres år i forskrekkelse.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Numbers 14:35
I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation, which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”
Read in contextNumbers 14:29
Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.
Read in contextNumbers 26:64–65
Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 12:13–14
When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this: Fear God and keep His commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 2:14–16
The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 1:13–14
And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them!
Read in contextJob 5:6–7
For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 1:2
“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”
Read in context