God’s Word Translation
Psalms 78:33
33He brought their days to an end like a whisper in the wind. He brought their years to an end in terror.
Psalms 78:33 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
- New International Version (NIV)So he ended their days in futility and their years in terror.
- English Standard Version (ESV)So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore their days He consumed in futility, And their years in fear.
Context of Psalms 78:33
31the anger of God flared up against them. He killed their strongest men and slaughtered the best young men in Israel. 32In spite of all this, they continued to sin, and they no longer believed in his miracles. He brought their days to an end like a whisper in the wind. He brought their years to an end in terror. 34When he killed ⌞some of⌟ them, ⌞the rest⌟ searched for him. They turned from their sins and eagerly looked for God. 35They remembered that God was their rock, that the Most High was their defender.
Read all of Psalms 78Psalms 78:33 word by word
וַיְכַל־בַּהֶ֥בֶל יְמֵיהֶ֑ם וּ֝שְׁנוֹתָ֗ם בַּבֶּהָלָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 78:33
- Psalms 90:7Indeed, your anger consumes us. Your rage terrifies us.
- Numbers 14:29Your bodies will drop dead in this desert. All of you who are at least 20 years old, who were registered and listed, and who complained about me will die.
- Numbers 26:64Among them there wasn’t a single one of the Israelites Moses and the priest Aaron had counted in the Desert of Sinai.
- Deuteronomy 2:14Thirty-eight years passed from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered River. During that time all our soldiers from that generation died, as the Lord had sworn they would.
- Genesis 3:16He said to the woman, “I will increase your pain and your labor when you give birth to children. Yet, you will long for your husband, and he will rule you.”
- Job 5:6Certainly, sorrow doesn’t come from the soil, and trouble doesn’t sprout from the ground.
- Job 14:1“A person who is born of a woman is short-lived and is full of trouble.
- Ecclesiastes 1:2“Absolutely pointless!” says the spokesman. “Absolutely pointless! Everything is pointless.”
- Ecclesiastes 12:8“Absolutely pointless!” says the spokesman. “Everything is pointless!”
Commentaries on Psalms 78:33
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 33Their 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.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 33Therefore 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…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-39Verses 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 happiness at last, who can not…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 33An entire generation died in the wilderness (Numbers 14:22–23, 28–35).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33-3933-39. 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.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 78
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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