Psalm 78:19
New International Version
They spoke against God; they said, “Can God really spread a table in the wilderness?

New Living Translation
They even spoke against God himself, saying, “God can’t give us food in the wilderness.

English Standard Version
They spoke against God, saying, “Can God spread a table in the wilderness?

Berean Standard Bible
They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?

King James Bible
Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

New King James Version
Yes, they spoke against God: They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

New American Standard Bible
Then they spoke against God; They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

NASB 1995
Then they spoke against God; They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

NASB 1977
Then they spoke against God; They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

Legacy Standard Bible
Then they spoke against God; They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

Amplified Bible
Then they spoke against God; They said, “Can God prepare [food for] a table in the wilderness?

Christian Standard Bible
They spoke against God, saying, “Is God able to provide food in the wilderness?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They spoke against God, saying,” Is God able to provide food in the wilderness?

American Standard Version
Yea, they spake against God; They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And they complained against God and they said, "Can God arrange tables for us in the wilderness?"

Brenton Septuagint Translation
They spoke also against God, and said, Will God be able to prepare a table in the wilderness?

Contemporary English Version
They challenged God by saying, "Can God provide food out here in the desert?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they spoke ill of God: they said: Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

English Revised Version
Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They spoke against God by saying, "Can God prepare a banquet in the desert?

Good News Translation
They spoke against God and said, "Can God supply food in the desert?

International Standard Version
They spoke against God by asking, "Is God able to prepare a feast in the desert?

JPS Tanakh 1917
Yea, they spoke against God; They said 'Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

Literal Standard Version
And they speak against God—they said: “Is God able to array a table in a wilderness?”

Majority Standard Bible
They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?

New American Bible
They spoke against God, and said, “Can God spread a table in the wilderness?

NET Bible
They insulted God, saying, "Is God really able to give us food in the wilderness?

New Revised Standard Version
They spoke against God, saying, “Can God spread a table in the wilderness?

New Heart English Bible
Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

Webster's Bible Translation
Yes, they spoke against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

World English Bible
Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

Young's Literal Translation
And they speak against God -- they said: 'Is God able to array a table in a wilderness?'

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
I Will Open My Mouth in Parables
18They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved. 19They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness? 20When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?”…

Cross References
Exodus 16:3
"If only we had died by the LORD's hand in the land of Egypt!" they said. "There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!"

Numbers 11:4
Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, "Who will feed us meat?

Numbers 20:3
The people quarreled with Moses and said, "If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!

Numbers 21:5
and spoke against God and against Moses: "Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!"

Psalm 23:5
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.


Treasury of Scripture

Yes, they spoke against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

yea

Exodus 16:8-10
And Moses said, This shall be, when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD…

Numbers 21:5
And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.

2 Chronicles 32:19
And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man.

Can God

Numbers 11:4,13
And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? …

furnish.

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Psalm 78
1. An exhortation both to learn and to preach, the law of God
9. The story of God's wrath against the incredulous and disobedient
67. The Israelites being rejected, God chose Judah, Zion, and David.














(19, 20) A comparison of these verses with the references in the margin shows how the ancient narratives fared under poetical treatment.

Furnish a table.--Comp. Psalm 23:5, Note

Gushed out.--Comp. Psalm 105:41.

Verse 19. - Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? (see Numbers 11:4). But the psalmist either feels himself at liberty to expand the account given in the Pentateuch, or has a further knowledge of the real feelings of the people, which has come to him by tradition (compare the comment on ver. 12).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
They spoke
וַֽיְדַבְּר֗וּ (way·ḏab·bə·rū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

against God,
בֵּֽאלֹ֫הִ֥ים (bê·lō·hîm)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

saying,
אָ֭מְרוּ (’ā·mə·rū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“Can
הֲי֣וּכַל (hă·yū·ḵal)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3201: To be able, have power

God
אֵ֑ל (’êl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 410: Strength -- as adjective, mighty, the Almighty

really prepare
לַעֲרֹ֥ךְ (la·‘ă·rōḵ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 6186: To set in a, row, arrange, put in order

a table
שֻׁ֝לְחָ֗ן (lə·ḥān)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7979: A table, a meal

in the wilderness?
בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃ (bam·miḏ·bār)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4057: A pasture, a desert, speech


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