Psalms 78:33

When he slew them,.... Some of them, the spies particularly; or when he threatened to slay them, or was about to do it:

then they sought him; that is, those who either survived the slain, or were…

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 at…

In these verses,

I. The psalmist observes the late rebukes of Providence that the people of Israel had been under, which they had brought upon themselves by their dealing treacherously with God, Psa…

in vanity … in trouble Or, as a breath, unsubstantial and transitory (Psa 39:5; Psa 39:11; Psa 62:9): with sudden terror (Lev 26:16).