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In spite of all this they still sinned,
For they did not believe in His wonderful and extraordinary works.
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Therefore He consumed their days like a breath [in emptiness and futility]
And their years in sudden terror. ³⁴
When He killed [some of] them, then those remaining sought Him,
And they returned [to Him] and searched diligently for God [for a time].

Cross References

Numbers 14:29

your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness, even all who were numbered of you, your entire number from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against Me.

Numbers 14:35

I, the Lord, have spoken. I will most certainly do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed [by war, disease, and plagues], and here they shall die.’”

Numbers 26:64-65

But among these there was not a man [left] of those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the sons of Israel [for the first time] in the Wilderness of Sinai.

Genesis 3:16-19

To the woman He said,
“I will greatly multiply
Your pain in childbirth;
In pain you will give birth to children;
Yet your desire and longing will be for your husband,
And he will rule [with authority] over you and be responsible for you.”

Deuteronomy 2:14-16

Now thirty-eight years passed from the time we left Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley, until that entire generation of the men of war had died from within the camp, just as the Lord had sworn to them.

Job 5:6-7

“For affliction does not come forth from the dust,
Nor does trouble spring forth from the ground.

Job 14:1

“Man, who is born of a woman,
Is short-lived and full of turmoil.

Psalm 90:7-9

For we have been consumed by Your anger
And by Your wrath we have been terrified.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher.
“Vanity of vanities! All [that is done without God’s guidance] is vanity [futile, meaningless—a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes, merely chasing the wind].”

Ecclesiastes 1:13-14

And I set my mind to seek and explore by [man’s] wisdom all [human activity] that has been done under heaven. It is a miserable business and a burdensome task which God has given the sons of men with which to be busy and distressed.

Ecclesiastes 12:8

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher. “All [that is done without God’s guidance] is vanity (futility).”

Ecclesiastes 12:13-14

When all has been heard, the end of the matter is: fear God [worship Him with awe-filled reverence, knowing that He is almighty God] and keep His commandments, for this applies to every person.

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