Psalms 78:33
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.”
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BSBPD
“So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“And He consumeth in vanity their days, And their years in trouble.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 78:33 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 3:16To 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.”
- Numbers 14:29Your 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.
- Numbers 14:33Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
- Numbers 14:35I, 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 26:64Among 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.
- Deuteronomy 2:14The 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.
- Deuteronomy 2:15Indeed, the LORD’s hand was against them, to eliminate them from the camp, until they had all perished.
- Job 5:6For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.
- Job 14:1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
- Psalms 90:7For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
- Ecclesiastes 1:2“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”
- Ecclesiastes 1:13And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them!
- Ecclesiastes 12:8“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher. “Everything is futile!”
- Ecclesiastes 12:13When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this: Fear God and keep His commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.
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