Psalm 78:27
New International Version
He rained meat down on them like dust, birds like sand on the seashore.

New Living Translation
He rained down meat as thick as dust— birds as plentiful as the sand on the seashore!

English Standard Version
he rained meat on them like dust, winged birds like the sand of the seas;

Berean Standard Bible
He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.

King James Bible
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:

New King James Version
He also rained meat on them like the dust, Feathered fowl like the sand of the seas;

New American Standard Bible
When He rained meat upon them like the dust, Even winged fowl like the sand of the seas,

NASB 1995
When He rained meat upon them like the dust, Even winged fowl like the sand of the seas,

NASB 1977
When He rained meat upon them like the dust, Even winged fowl like the sand of the seas,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then He rained meat upon them like the dust, Even winged fowl like the sand of the seas,

Amplified Bible
He rained meat upon them like the dust, And winged birds (quail) like the sand of the seas.

Christian Standard Bible
He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the seas.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the seas.

American Standard Version
He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, And winged birds as the sand of the seas:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He sent flesh down for them like dust, and birds of the wing like the sand of the sea

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And he rained upon them flesh like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the seas.

Contemporary English Version
and it brought birds that covered the ground, like sand on the beach.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he rained upon them flesh as dust: and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea.

English Revised Version
He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, and winged fowl as the sand of the seas:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He rained meat down on them like dust, birds like the sand on the seashore.

Good News Translation
and to his people he sent down birds, as many as the grains of sand on the shore;

International Standard Version
He caused meat to rain on them like dust and winged birds as the sand of the sea.

JPS Tanakh 1917
He caused flesh also to rain upon them as the dust, And winged fowl as the sand of the seas;

Literal Standard Version
And He rains on them flesh as dust, | And as sand of the seas—winged bird,

Majority Standard Bible
He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.

New American Bible
He rained meat upon them like dust, winged fowl like the sands of the sea,

NET Bible
He rained down meat on them like dust, birds as numerous as the sand on the seashores.

New Revised Standard Version
he rained flesh upon them like dust, winged birds like the sand of the seas;

New Heart English Bible
He rained also flesh on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas.

Webster's Bible Translation
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:

World English Bible
He also rained meat on them as the dust, winged birds as the sand of the seas.

Young's Literal Translation
And He raineth on them flesh as dust, And as sand of the seas -- winged fowl,

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Context
I Will Open My Mouth in Parables
26He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might. 27He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea. 28He felled them in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.…

Cross References
Exodus 16:13
That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.

Psalm 78:28
He felled them in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.

Psalm 105:40
They asked, and He brought quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.


Treasury of Scripture

He rained flesh also on them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:

he rained

Exodus 16:12,13
I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God…

Numbers 11:18,19,32
And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat…

feathered fowls.

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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.














(27) No doubt there is poetical hyperbole here, but for the enormous numbers of quails that are now caught, see the article quoted above.

Verse 27. - He rained flesh also upon them. With the expression, "rained flesh," comp. Exodus 16:4, "Behold, I will rain bread from heaven;" and see also Genesis 19:24 and Exodus 9:23. As dust; i.e. "as thick as dust" (Prayer book Version). The quails lay "as it were two cubits high" for the distance of a day's journey round about each encampment (see Numbers 11:31). And feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea. The commonest image of multiplicity (Genesis 22:17; Deuteronomy 33:19; Joshua 11:4; Judges 7:12, etc.).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He rained
וַיַּמְטֵ֬ר (way·yam·ṭêr)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4305: To rain

meat
שְׁאֵ֑ר (šə·’êr)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7607: Flesh, as living, for, food, food of any kind, kindred by blood

on them
עֲלֵיהֶ֣ם (‘ă·lê·hem)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

like dust,
כֶּעָפָ֣ר (ke·‘ā·p̄ār)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6083: Dust, clay, earth, mud

and winged
כָּנָֽף׃ (kā·nāp̄)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 3671: An edge, extremity, a wing, a flap, a quarter, a pinnacle

birds
ע֣וֹף (‘ō·wp̄)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 5775: Flying creatures

like the sand
וּֽכְח֥וֹל (ū·ḵə·ḥō·wl)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 2344: Sand

of the sea.
יַ֝מִּ֗ים (yam·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3220: A sea, the Mediterranean Sea, large river, an artifical basin


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