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I Will Open My Mouth in Parables

Psalms 78:33

In 11 translations

BSB
So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.Or in vapor
KJV
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
WEB
Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
ASV
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.
LSV
And He consumes their days in vanity, || And their years in trouble.
YLT
And He consumeth in vanity their days, And their years in trouble.
DBY
And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
DRC77:33
And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years in haste.
GNV
Therefore their daies did hee consume in vanitie, and their yeeres hastily.
JPS
Therefore He ended their days as a breath, and their years in terror.
LXXE77:33
And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years with anxiety.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיְכַל־בַּהֶ֥בֶל יְמֵיהֶ֑ם וּ֝שְׁנוֹתָ֗ם בַּבֶּהָלָֽה׃
LXX-Br77:33
θαυμασίοις αὐτοῦ. Καὶ ἐξέλιπον ἐν ματαιότητι αἱ ἡμέραι αὐτῶν, καὶ τὰ ἔτη αὐτῶν μετὰ σπουδῆς.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • 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 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 26:64–65Among 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. For the LORD had told them that they would surely die in the…
  • Ecclesiastes 12:13–14When 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. For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing,…
  • Deuteronomy 2:14–16The 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.…
  • Ecclesiastes 12:8“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher. “Everything is futile!”
  • Job 5:6–7For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground. Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
  • Ecclesiastes 1:13–14And 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! I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have…
  • Psalms 90:7–9For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath. You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence. For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a…
  • Job 14:1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
  • Ecclesiastes 1:2“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”
  • Genesis 3:16–19To 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.” And to Adam He said: “Because you have…

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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  • 77:33 in some Bibles
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