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Psalms 78:32–34

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For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God.
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From verse 32

  1. John 12:37Rank 1 from verse 32
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    37¶ But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:

  2. Ezekiel 20:13Rank 2 from verse 32
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    13But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

  3. Luke 16:31Rank 3 from verse 32
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    31And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.

  4. Psalms 78:22Rank 4 from verse 32
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    22Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:

  5. Numbers 14:1–45Rank 5 from verse 32
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    1AND all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

    2And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!

    3And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

    4And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

    5Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

    6¶ And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:

    7And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.

    8If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.

    9Only rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the Lord is with us: fear them not.

    10But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.

    11¶ And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?

    12I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

    13¶ And Moses said unto the Lord, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)

    14And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou Lord art among this people, that thou Lord art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.

    15¶ Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

    16Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

    17And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

    18The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

    19Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.

    20And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word:

    21But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.

    22Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

    23Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

    24But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.

    25(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

    26¶ And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

    27How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

    28Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

    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,

    30Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

    31But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.

    32But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.

    33And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

    34After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

    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.

    36And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,

    37Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord.

    38But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.

    39And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

    40¶ And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the Lord hath promised: for we have sinned.

    41And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the Lord? but it shall not prosper.

    42Go not up, for the Lord is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.

    43For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the Lord, therefore the Lord will not be with you.

    44But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.

    45Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.

From verse 33

  1. Numbers 14:35Rank 1 from verse 33
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    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.

  2. Numbers 14:29Rank 2 from verse 33
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    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,

  3. Numbers 26:64–65Rank 3 from verse 33
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    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.

  4. Deuteronomy 2:14–16Rank 4 from verse 33
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    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.

    16¶ So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

  5. Ecclesiastes 12:13–14Rank 5 from verse 33
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    13¶ Let 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.

From verse 34

  1. Hosea 5:15Rank 1 from verse 34
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    15¶ I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

  2. Numbers 21:7Rank 2 from verse 34
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    7¶ Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

  3. Judges 3:12–15Rank 3 from verse 34
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    12¶ And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the Lord.

    13And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.

    14So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

    15But when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.

  4. Hosea 7:14Rank 4 from verse 34
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    14And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.

  5. Isaiah 26:6Rank 5 from verse 34
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    6The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

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Psalms 78:32

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

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COMBINED MEANING

still

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Sense 1: Continuing without interruption, or remaining as before. Sense 2: Quiet, silent, or without motion. Sense 3: Even yet or nevertheless. Sense 4: To make quiet or cause to cease.

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believed

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of believe. Sense 1: To accept as true on testimony or evidence; to be persuaded. Sense 2: To trust or place confidence in.

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COMBINED MEANING

wondrous

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Wonderful, marvellous, extraordinary, and fitted to awaken wonder.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

works

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Plural of work: acts, deeds, labours, operations, products, or things made.

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Psalms 78:33

COMBINED MEANING

consume

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1. To destroy, use up, or bring to an end. 2. To waste away or be exhausted.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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COMBINED MEANING

vanity

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Emptiness, futility, worthlessness, falsehood, unreliability, or transience.

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trouble

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Sense 1: Disturbance, affliction, distress, vexation, or difficulty. Sense 2: To disturb, distress, afflict, or inconvenience.

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Psalms 78:34

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returned

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of return, meaning to go, come, send, or give back; to restore, answer, or turn again.

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inquired

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Asked, sought information, investigated, examined, searched after, or requested an answer or action from a person or from the Lord.

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after

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1. Later than or following in time or order. 2. Behind. 3. In pursuit of.

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31The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

32For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.

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33Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

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34When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God.

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35And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.

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