Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
So their days were wasted like a breath, and their years in trouble.
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.
A Conservative Version
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.
Amplified
Therefore He consumed their days like a breath [in emptiness and futility]
And their years in sudden terror.
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
Topics
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 78:33
Verse Info
Context Readings
Lessons From Israel's Past
32 For all this they went on sinning even more, and had no faith in his great wonders. 33 So their days were wasted like a breath, and their years in trouble. 34 When he sent death on them, then they made search for him; turning to him and looking for him with care;
Cross References
Numbers 14:29
Your dead bodies will be stretched out in this waste land; and of all your number, all those of twenty years old and over who have been crying out against me,
Numbers 14:35
I the Lord have said it, and this I will certainly do to all this evil people who have come together against me: in this waste land destruction will come on them, and death will be their fate.
Numbers 26:64-65
But among all these was not one of those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when the children of Israel were numbered in the waste land of Sinai.
Genesis 3:16-19
To the woman he said, Great will be your pain in childbirth; in sorrow will your children come to birth; still your desire will be for your husband, but he will be your master.
Deuteronomy 2:14-16
Thirty-eight years had gone by from the time when we came away from Kadesh-barnea till we went over the stream Zered; by that time all the generation of the men of war among us were dead, as the Lord had said.
Job 5:6-7
For evil does not come out of the dust, or trouble out of the earth;
Job 14:1
As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 1:13-14
And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14
This is the last word. All has been said. Have fear of God and keep his laws; because this is right for every man.