Psalm 78:33 “So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.”

Psalm 78:33

So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

American Standard Version

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.

Geneva Bible 1599

Therefore their daies did hee consume in vanitie, and their yeeres hastily.

Darby Translation

And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

Young's Literal Translation

And He consumeth in vanity their days, And their years in trouble.

Bible in Basic English

So their days were wasted like a breath, and their years in trouble.

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Cross references

“days”

Numbers 14:35 Numbers 14:29 Deuteronomy 2:14–16 Psalm 90:7–9 Numbers 26:64 Numbers 26:65

Numbers 14:35 · BSB

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.”

Numbers 14:29 · BSB

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.

Deuteronomy 2:14–16 · BSB

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.

Psalm 90:7–9 · BSB

For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.

Numbers 26:64 · BSB

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.

Numbers 26:65 · BSB

For the LORD had told them that they would surely die in the wilderness. Not one was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

“years”

Genesis 3:16–19 Job 14:1 Ecclesiastes 1:2 Ecclesiastes 12:8 Job 5:6 Job 5:7

Genesis 3:16–19 · BSB

To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Job 14:1 · BSB

“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

Ecclesiastes 1:2 · BSB

“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”

Ecclesiastes 12:8 · BSB

“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher. “Everything is futile!”

Job 5:6 · BSB

For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

Job 5:7 · BSB

Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

32In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.

34When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.

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