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King James Version

Psalms 78:33

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   God Continued...;   Vanity;   Wicked (People);   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   Thompson Chain Reference - Unbelievers;   The Topic Concordance - Compassion;   Forgiveness;   God;   Man;   Sin;   Trouble;   Unbelief;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Judgments;   Seeking God;   Vanity;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Time;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ecclesiastes, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Anger (Wrath) of God;   Asaph;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore their daies did hee consume in vanitie, and their yeeres hastily.
Christian Standard Bible®
He made their days end in futility,their years in sudden disaster.
Hebrew Names Version
Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, And their years in terror.
Easy-to-Read Version
So he ended their worthless lives; he brought their years to a close with disaster.
Amplified Bible
Therefore He consumed their days like a breath [in emptiness and futility] And their years in sudden terror.
American Standard Version
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.
Contemporary English Version
So he cut their lives short and made them terrified.
Complete Jewish Bible
Therefore, he ended their days in futility and their years in terror.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Therefore He ended their days as a breath, and their years in terror.
King James Version (1611)
Therefore their dayes did he consume in vanitie, and their yeeres in trouble.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years with anxiety.
English Revised Version
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in terror.
Berean Standard Bible
So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.
Lexham English Bible
And he consumed their days with futility their years with terror.
Literal Translation
and He ended their days in vanity, and their years in sudden terror.
New Century Version
So he ended their days without meaning and their years in terror.
New English Translation
So he caused them to die unsatisfied and filled with terror.
New King James Version
Therefore their days He consumed in futility, And their years in fear.
New Living Translation
So he ended their lives in failure, their years in terror.
New Life Bible
So He made their days come to nothing. He made their years end in fear all at once.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So he ended, in a breath, their days, And their years, in a sudden terror!
Douay-Rheims Bible
(77-33) And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years in haste.
George Lamsa Translation
Wherefore their days were spent in emptiness, and their years in impatience.
Good News Translation
So he ended their days like a breath and their lives with sudden disaster.
New American Standard Bible
So He brought their days to an end in futility, And their years to an end in sudden terror.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
When he slue them, they sought hym: they repented them, and made God their morninges worke.
New Revised Standard
So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror.
Darby Translation
And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the daies of hem failiden in vanytee; and the yeeris of hem faileden with haste.
Young's Literal Translation
And He consumeth in vanity their days, And their years in trouble.
World English Bible
Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, And their years in terror.
Revised Standard Version
So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror.
Update Bible Version
Therefore their days he consumed in vanity, And their years in terror.
Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
Bible in Basic English
So their days were wasted like a breath, and their years in trouble.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore their dayes were consumed in vanite, and sodenly their yeares were gone.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So He brought their days to an end in futility And their years in sudden terror.
Legacy Standard Bible
So He brought their days to an end in futilityAnd their years in sudden terror.

Contextual Overview

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 shewed 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 an heap. 14 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. 15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths. 16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. 17 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness. 18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

days: Psalms 90:7-9, Numbers 14:29, Numbers 14:35, Numbers 26:64, Numbers 26:65, Deuteronomy 2:14-16

years: Genesis 3:16-19, Job 5:6, Job 5:7, Job 14:1, Ecclesiastes 1:2, Ecclesiastes 1:13, Ecclesiastes 1:14, Ecclesiastes 12:8, Ecclesiastes 12:13, Ecclesiastes 12:14

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:16 - consume Numbers 32:13 - wander Deuteronomy 2:15 - the hand of the Job 7:16 - my days Psalms 31:10 - my life Psalms 90:9 - For Ecclesiastes 4:7 - General Ecclesiastes 5:17 - he eateth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity,.... They were not immediately cut off by the hand of God, though some were; but the greatest part spent their time, for about eight and thirty years together, in fruitless marches to and fro in the wilderness, and never entered into the land of Canaan, where they were gradually wasted and consumed, till at length all their carcasses fell in the wilderness; see Numbers 14:32, time spent in sin is all waste time, and is spent in vanity; let a man enjoy ever so much of worldly things, it is all vanity and vexation of spirit; if he does not get to heaven at last, his life here is lived in vain; it had been better if he had never been born:

and their years in trouble: or "in terror" a and consternation; through their enemies, who smote and discomfited them, Numbers 14:45, through the earth's opening and swallowing many of them up; through fire coming from heaven on some of them, and fiery serpents being sent among them all, Numbers 16:31. It is an awful consideration, and yet it is true, of some wicked men, though not all, that they have nothing but trouble here, by what their sins bring upon them, and hell at last. Kimchi renders the word here used "suddenly", and interprets it of the sudden death of the spies; so the Syriac and Arabic versions "swiftly", following the Vulgate Latin, which renders it "with haste".

a בבהלה "in terrore", Montanus; "per consternationem aut terrorem", Gejerus; "in terrore et consternatione", Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity - He suffered them to spend their days - the days of that entire generation - in vain and fruitless wanderings in the desert. Instead of leading them at once to the promised land, they were kept there to wear out their life in tedious monotony, accomplishing nothing - wandering from place to place - until all the generation that had come out of Egypt had died.

And their years in trouble - literally, “in terror.” Amidst the troubles, the alarms, the terrors of a vast and frightful desert. Sin - rebellion against God - leads to a course of life, and a death, of which these gloomy, sad, and cheerless wanderings in the desert were a striking emblem.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 78:33. Their days did he consume in vanity — By causing them to wander forty years in the wilderness, vainly expecting an end to their labour, and the enjoyment of the promised rest, which, by their rebellions, they had forfeited.


 
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