Psalms 78:33
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
American King James Version (AKJV)
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
So their days were wasted like a breath, and their years in trouble.
Webster's Revision
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.
English Revised Version (ERV)
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in terror.
Clarke's Psalms 78:33 Bible Commentary
Their 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.
Barnes's Psalms 78:33 Bible Commentary
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.
Wesley's Psalms 78:33 Bible Commentary
78:33 Vanity - In tedious and fruitless marches hither and thither.Trouble - In manifold diseases, dangers, and perplexities.