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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 are consumed by thine anger, and by thy fury are we troubled.
 8Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
 9For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a passing thought. (Psa. 90:7‑9)
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Num. 14:29,35• 29In this wilderness shall your carcases 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.
 16And it came to pass when all the men of war were consumed, having died off from among the people, (Deut. 2:14‑16)
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Gen. 3:16‑19• 16To the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy travail and thy pregnancy; with pain thou shalt bear children; and to thy husband shall be thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.
 17And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on thy account; with toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
 18and thorns and thistles shall it yield thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
 19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return. (Gen. 3:16‑19)
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Job 5:6‑7• 6For evil cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
 7For man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upwards. (Job 5:6‑7)
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Job 14:1• 1Man, born of woman, 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, vanity of vanities! all is vanity.
 13And I applied my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens: this grievous occupation hath God given to the children of men to weary themselves therewith.
 14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and pursuit of the wind. (Eccl. 1:2,13‑14)
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Eccl. 12:8,13‑14• 8Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher: all is vanity.
 13Let us hear the end of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole of man.
 14For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, 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. (“Psalms 78” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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