“ Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble. ”
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity - He suffered them to spend their days - the days of that entire generation - in vain and fruitless wanderings in the desert. Instead of leading them...
LXXVIII. The Lesson of Israel's History. The northern tribes have been perverse from the first. Their wickedness has culminated in the schismatical religion of the Samaritans. God, on the contrary,...
in vanity . in. breath. i.e. the whole generation of men quickly died out. Compare Numbers 14:29 ; Numbers 14:35 ; Numbers 26:64 ; Numbers 26:65 .
33. And he consumed their days in vanity. As the Psalmist here speaks of the whole people, as if he had said, that all without exception were speedily consumed, from the least even to the gr...
DISCOURSE: 634 THE FRUIT OF IMPENITENCE AND UNBELIEF Psalms 78:32-33 . For all this, they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works. Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, an...
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble. Their days did he consume in vanity - By causing them to wander forty years in the wilderness, vainly expecting an end to th...
Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. -The unbelief of the Israelite fathers is detailed as a sad contrast to God's marvels perfor...
This long historical Ps. may be compared with Psalms 105, 106, and with Deuteronomy 32 . It traces the course of God's relations with His people from the exodus down to the time of David, and dwells...
(32-33) For the allusion see Numbers 14:11-12 ; Numbers 14:28-35 .
Psalms 78:1-72 THIS psalm is closely related to Psalms 105:1-45 ; Psalms 106:1-48 ; Psalms 107:1-43 . Like them, it treats the history of Israel, and especially the Exodus and wilderness wander...
Blessed Yet Ungrateful Psalms 78:25-37 God our Father is prepared to do “exceeding abundantly” for His children; but too often we become so engrossed with His gifts as to forget and neglect the...
The supreme quantity of this psalm is that throughout all its measures, over against the repeated failure of His people God's persistent patience is set forth in bold relief. The purpose of the psalm...
What gracious instructions are read to us in these verses! See, my soul, how unsuitable and self-destroying would prove thy desires in numberless instances, if the Lord, in anger, granted them to thy...
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity ,.... They were not immediately cut off by the hand of God, though some were; but the greatest part spent their time, for about eight and thirty years t...
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble. Ver. 33. Therefore their days did he consume in vanity ] So that they never saw the promised land, for the which they cam...
Their days did he consume in vanity In tedious and fruitless marches hither and thither, sometimes forward and sometimes backward, which they knew would never bring them, in their own persons, to t...
Wonders Wrought in Behalf of Israel; The Crimes of the Israelites; Judgments Brought on the Israelites. ...
In vanity; in tedious and fruitless marches hither and thither, sometimes forward, and sometimes backward, which they knew would never bring them in their own persons to their promised and much-des...
INTRODUCTION Superscription,—“Maschil of Asaph ,” i.e. , an instruction of Asaph, a didactic song by Asaph. The Psalm was probably written by the celebrated Asaph in the time of David. Occasion...
This story of the children of Israel, after they came out of Egypt, is like a looking-glass in which we may, with great sadness, see ourselves reflected. Psalms 78:9 . The children of Ephraim, bei...
Title. Maschil of Asaph. Rabbi Kimchi says, that this title, which signifies to give instruction, designates also the species of music or melody to which the words were set, as is now the practice...
EXPOSITION This, the first of the "historical psalms," though assigned by the rationalistic school (De Wette, Ewald, Koster, Hitzig) to a period subsequent to the Captivity, is generally allowed...
The Narrative of God's Deeds
Deuteronomy 2:14-16 ; Ecclesiastes 1:13 ; Ecclesiastes 1:14 ; Ecclesiastes 1:2 ; Ecclesiastes 12:13 ; Ecclesiastes 12:14 ; Ecclesiastes 12:8 ; Genesis 3:16-19 ; Job 14:1 ; Job 5:6 ; Job 5:...
Vanity — In tedious and fruitless marches hither and thither. Trouble — In manifold diseases, dangers, and perplexities.