Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
New American Standard Bible
And their years in sudden terror.
King James Version
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
Holman Bible
their years in sudden disaster.
International Standard Version
So he made their days end in futility, and their years with sudden terror.
American Standard Version
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.
Amplified
Therefore He consumed their days like a breath [in emptiness and futility]
And their years in sudden terror.
Bible in Basic English
So their days were wasted like a breath, and their years in trouble.
Darby Translation
And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
Julia Smith Translation
And he will finish their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
King James 2000
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And he consumed their days with futility their years with terror.
Modern King James verseion
Therefore He ended their days in vanity and their years in trouble.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Therefore their days were consumed in vanity, and suddenly their years were gone.
NET Bible
So he caused them to die unsatisfied and filled with terror.
New Heart English Bible
Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
The Emphasized Bible
So he ended, in a breath, their days, And their years, in a sudden terror!
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
And He consumeth in vanity their days, And their years in trouble.
Themes
Compassion » The lord being compassionate
Forgiveness » The lord forgiving
Judgments » Different kinds of » Continued sorrows
Seeking God » Afflictions designed to lead to
Trouble » Why people have trouble
Unbelief » The reward for not believing the lord
Unbelievers » Their lifetime spent in vanity
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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 78:33
Verse Info
Context Readings
Lessons From Israel's Past
32 For all this they still sinned, and did not believe in his wondrous works. 33 Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror. 34 When he killed them, then they inquired after him, and they returned and sought God earnestly.
Cross References
Numbers 14:29
Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. And all who were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,
Numbers 14:35
I, LORD, have spoken, surely I will do this to all this evil congregation that are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
Numbers 26:64-65
But among these there was not a man of them who was numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
Genesis 3:16-19
To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy childbearing, in pain thou shall bring forth children. And thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Deuteronomy 2:14-16
And the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we came over the brook Zered, were thirty-eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the midst of the camp, as LORD swore to them.
Job 5:6-7
For affliction does not come forth from the dust, nor does trouble spring out of the ground,
Job 14:1
Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
Psalm 90:7-9
For we are consumed in thine anger, and in thy wrath are we troubled.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 1:13-14
And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven. It is a great tribulation that God has given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14
[This is] the end of the matter, all has been heard: Fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is the whole of man.