Sálmarnir 78:33

Heilögum Biblíunni

33 Þá lét hann daga þeirra hverfa í hégóma og ár þeirra enda í skelfingu.

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.