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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 wrath are we troubled.
 8Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
 9For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. (Psa. 90:7‑9)
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Num. 14:29,35• 29Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
 35I the Lord have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are 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 of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
 65For the Lord 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• 14And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the Lord sware unto them.
 15For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
 16So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people, (Deut. 2:14‑16)
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Gen. 3:16‑19• 16Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
 17And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
 18Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
 19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto 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• 6Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
 7Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. (Job 5:6‑7)
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Job 14:1• 1Man that is born of a 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 gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
 14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. (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 conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty 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.