Psalms 78 · Verse 33

Psalms 78:33

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
Psalms 78:33, King James Version

Psalms 78:33 in other translations

BSBSo He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.
WEBTherefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
ASVTherefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.
YLTAnd He consumeth in vanity their days, And their years in trouble.
DARBYAnd he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
BBESo their days were wasted like a breath, and their years in trouble.
WebsterTherefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

What does Psalms 78:33 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 78:33-39
33-39. Though there were partial reformations after chastisement, and God, in pity, withdrew His hand for a time, yet their general conduct was rebellious, and He was thus provoked to waste and destroy them, by long and fruitless wandering in the desert.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 33 Their days did he consume in vanity - By causing them to wander forty years in the wilderness, vainly expecting an end to their labor, and the enjoyment of the promised rest, which, by their rebellions, they had forfeited.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 78:9-39

Sin dispirits men, and takes away the heart. Forgetfulness of God's works is the cause of disobedience to his laws. This narrative relates a struggle between God's goodness and man's badness. The Lord hears all our murmurings and distrusts, and is much displeased. Those that will not believe the power of God's mercy, shall feel the fire of his indignation. Those cannot be said to trust in God's salvation as their…

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Psalms 78:33 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיְכַל\־vay.khal-and he brought to an endH3615
בַּהֶ֥בֶלba.He.velin <the> futilityH1892
יְמֵיהֶ֑םye.mei.Hemdays theirH3117
וּ֝שְׁנוֹתָ֗םu.she.no.Tamand years theirH8141
בַּבֶּהָלָֽה\׃ba.be.ha.Lahin <the> sudden terrorH928

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Cross references for Psalms 78:33

  • 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.

  • Numbers 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,

  • Numbers 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. For the Lord had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

  • Ecclesiastes 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. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

  • Deuteronomy 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. For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed. So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

  • Ecclesiastes 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. I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Job 5:6-7

    Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

  • Ecclesiastes 1:2

    Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

  • Genesis 3:16-19

    Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

  • Ecclesiastes 12:8

    Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.

  • Job 14:1

    Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

  • Psalms 90:7-9

    For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
days.
90:7-9; Nu 14:29,35; 26:64,65; De 2:14-16
years.
Ge 3:16-19; Job 5:6,7; 14:1; Ec 1:2,13,14; 12:8,13,14

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Context

  • Psalms 78:32

    For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.

  • Psalms 78:33

    Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

  • Psalms 78:34

    When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.

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Psalms 78:33 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Consumió por tanto en nada sus días, y sus años en la tribulación.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et il consuma leurs jours par la vanité, et leurs années par la frayeur.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Da ließ er in Eitelkeit hinschwinden ihre Tage, und ihre Jahre in Schrecken.