Psalms 78:33

“Because they provoked his spirit; etc.] Though he was a very meek man, meeker than any upon the face of the earth, (<041202>Numbers 12:2), yet, being greatly provoked, let fall some passionate and undue expressions: and this was not only his sin, but the fault of those also that provoked him, and with this view it is mentioned. The Targum is, “for they rebelled against his Holy Spirit;” the Holy Spirit of God, as in (<236310>Isaiah 63:10). Jarchi interprets it of Moses and Aaron provoking the Spirit of God; which sense is mentioned, by Aben Ezra and Kimchi; though they seem to prefer the former, and which seems best. Some interpret it of the Israelites, that they caused Moses and Aaron to…”

“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 once to the promised land, they were kept there to wear out their life in tedious monotony, accomplishing nothing - wandering from place to place - until all the generation that had come out of Egypt had died. And their years in trouble - literally, “in terror.” Amidst the troubles, the alarms, the terrors of a vast and frightful desert. Sin - rebellion against God - leads to a course of life, and a death, of which these gloomy, sad, and cheerless wanderings in the desert were a striking emblem.…”

“Vanity - In tedious and fruitless marches hither and thither. Trouble - In manifold diseases, dangers, and perplexities. Psalms 78:34”

“78:33 An entire generation died in the wilderness (Num 14:22-23, 28-35).”

“days: Psa 90:7-9; Num 14:29, Num 14:35, Num 26:64, Num 26:65; Deu 2:14-16 years: Gen 3:16-19; Job 5:6, Job 5:7, Job 14:1; Ecc 1:2, Ecc 1:13, Ecc 1:14, Ecc 12:8, Ecc 12:13, Ecc 12:14 Psalms 78:34”