Psalms 78:19

King James Version

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

Parallel Translations

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
They spake against God also, saying, Can God prepare a table in the wildernesse?

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

Hebrew Names Version
Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

Easy-to-Read Version
They complained about him and said, "Can God give us food in the desert?

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

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

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

Complete Jewish Bible
Yes, they spoke against God by asking, "Can God spread a table in the desert?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Yea, they spoke against God; they said: 'Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

King James Version (1611)
Yea, they spake against God: they said, Can God furnish a table in the wildernes?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They spoke also against God, and said, Will God be able to prepare a table in the wilderness?

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

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

Lexham English Bible
And they spoke against God. They said, "Is God able to prepare a table in the wilderness?

Literal Translation
And they spoke against God, saying, Shall God be able to set a table in the wilderness?

New Century Version
Then they spoke against God, saying, "Can God prepare food in the desert?

New English Translation
They insulted God, saying, "Is God really able to give us food in the wilderness?

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

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

New Life Bible
Then they spoke against God, saying, "Can God set a table in the desert?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yea they spake against Elohim, - They said, Can GOD prepare a table in the desert?

Douay-Rheims Bible
(77-19) And they spoke ill of God: they said: Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

George Lamsa Translation
Yea, they complained against God; they said, Can God furnish tables of food in the wilderness?

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

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

Bishop's Bible (1568)
They spake against God: they said, can God prepare a table in the wildernesse?

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

Darby Translation
And they spoke against God: they said, Is God able to prepare a table in the wilderness?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei spaken yuel of God; thei seiden, Whether God may make redi a bord in desert?

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

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

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

Update Bible Version
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?

Bible in Basic English
They said bitter words against God, saying, Is God able to make ready a table in the waste land?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
They tempted God in their hertes, and requyred meate for their lust,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
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?

Contextual Overview

⁹ The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. ¹⁰ They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; ¹¹ And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them. ¹² Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. ¹³ He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap. ¹⁴ In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. ¹⁵ He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths. ¹⁶ He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. ¹⁷ And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness. ¹⁸ And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Yea: Exodus 16:8-10, Numbers 21:5, 2 Chronicles 32:19, Job 34:37, Romans 9:20, Revelation 13:6

Can God: Numbers 11:4, Numbers 11:13

furnish: Heb. order

Reciprocal: Exodus 15:24 - What Leviticus 25:20 - General 2 Kings 7:2 - if the Lord Psalms 78:41 - limited Matthew 14:17 - General Mark 8:4 - From Luke 9:12 - for John 6:9 - but John 11:21 - if John 11:37 - Could

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Yea, they spoke against God,.... Not only thought ill of him, and tempted him in their hearts, but they expressed with their mouths what was in their hearts, and spoke against him, his power, and his providence, in plain words, though he had been so good and gracious to them, and had done such wonderful things for them: they said,

can God furnish a table in the wilderness? these are the words which they spoke against him, and by which they tempted him, questioning his power and his goodness, and expressing their dissatisfaction with their present and daily allowance; they were not content with the manna they had every day, but they wanted to have a table ordered and spread with all kind of dainties. The sense of the question is, can the Lord do this for us? give us a plentiful table in the wilderness, as well as drop the manna about our tents? if he can, why does not he? if he does not, it must be either for want in himself, or want of good will to us; and thus tried and tempted the Lord.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Yea, they spake against God - That is, in the manner which is immediately specified - by calling in question his power, or his ability to provide for them in the wilderness. See Numbers 11:4.

They said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? - In the desert. The word rendered “furnish” is in the margin “order.” It means to arrange; to set in order; and here to arrange and provide for, as at a feast. The precise words used by the complaining Hebrews are not quoted here, but the substance of what they said is retained. The idea is, that what they spake was “equivalent” to saying that God could not prepare a table for them; that is, provide for them, in the desert.