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Psalm 78

Psa. 78:33 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Therefore their days
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
did he consume
kalah (Hebrew #3615)
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
KJV usage: accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when ... were) done, (be an) end (of), expire, (cause to) fail, faint, finish, fulfil, X fully, X have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste.
Pronounce: kaw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
in vanity
hebel (Hebrew #1892)
from 1891; emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb
KJV usage: X altogether, vain, vanity.
Pronounce: heh'bel
Origin: or (rarely in the abs.) habel {hab-ale'}
, and their years
shaneh (Hebrew #8141)
from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time)
KJV usage: + whole age, X long, + old, year(X -ly).
Pronounce: shaw-neh'
Origin: (in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}
in trouble
behalah (Hebrew #928)
panic, destruction
KJV usage: terror, trouble.
Pronounce: beh-haw-law'
Origin: from 926
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Psa. 90:7‑9• 7For we decay in thine anger,{HR}And in thy wrath are we confounded.
 8Thou hast set our iniquities before thee,{HR}Our secret [sins] in the light of thy face.
 9For all our days are turned away in thy wrath:{HR}We spend our years as a thought. (Psa. 90:7‑9)
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Num. 14:29,35• 29In this wilderness shall your carcasses fall; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number from twenty years old and upwards, who have murmured against me,
 35I Jehovah have spoken; I will surely do it unto all this evil assembly which have gathered together against me! in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die. (Num. 14:29,35)
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Num. 26:64‑65• 64But among these there was not a man numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
 65For Jehovah had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. (Num. 26:64‑65)
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Deut. 2:14‑16• 14Now the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we had come over the torrent Zered, were thirty-eight years; until the whole generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah had sworn unto them.
 15Moreover the hand of Jehovah was against them to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.
 16So it came to pass when all the men of war were consumed from among the people, (Deut. 2:14‑16)
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Gen. 3:16‑19• 16Unto the woman he said, Increasing I will increase thy sorrow and thy conception: in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; unto thy husband [shall be] thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.
 17And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto thy wife's voice, and hast eaten of the tree [of] which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed [be] the ground for thy sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all thy life's days;
 18and thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat herbage of the field;
 19in sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it wast thou taken. For dust [art] thou, and unto dust shalt thou return. (Gen. 3:16‑19)
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Job 5:6‑7• 6For evil goeth not forth of the dust,{HR}And trouble doth not sprout out of the ground;
 7But man is born to trouble,{HR}As the sparks of flame make high their flight. (Job 5:6‑7)
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Job 14:1• 1Man, born of woman,{HR}Is of few days, and full of trouble, (Job 14:1)
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Eccl. 1:2,13‑14• 2Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher,{HR}Vanity of vanities; the whole [is] vanity.
 13And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom{HR}Concerning all that is done under heaven:{HR}It is a sore travail that God hath given{HR}To the sons of men to be exercised therewith.
 14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun;{HR}And, behold, all [is] vanity and a striving after wind. (Eccl. 1:2,13‑14)
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Eccl. 12:8,13‑14• 8Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher;{HR}All [is] vanity.
 13[This is] the end of the matter;{HR}All hath been heard:{HR}Fear God, and keep His commandments;{HR}For this [is] the whole [duty] of man.
 14For God shall bring every work into judgment,{HR}With every hidden thing,{HR}Whether [it be] good or whether [it be] evil. (Eccl. 12:8,13‑14)
• {v.33-42} in the wilderness, only to bring out their utter failure. Now verse 33 to 42 present God’s ways with His people in the days of the Judges. In those days God’s governmental ways with His people were tempered with mercy. (“Psalm 78” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

W. Kelly Translation

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He consumed their days in vanity,{HR}And their years in terror.