Psalms 78:33
31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God 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 said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
Read in contextNumbers 14:29
Your 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,
Read in contextNumbers 26:64–65
But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 12:13–14
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 2:14–16
And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 1:13–14
And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
Read in contextJob 5:6–7
Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
Read in contextEcclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
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