Psalm 78:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

They spoke against God! “Can God set a dinner table in the wilderness?” they asked.

Psalm 78:19 Cross References

2 Kings 7:2

Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned said to the man of God, “Even if the Lord were to make windows in the sky, could such a thing happen?” But he said, “You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat from it.”

2 Chronicles 32:19

They spoke of the God of Jerusalem as if he were like the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of human hands.

Job 34:37

For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”

Psalm 23:5

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

Exodus 16:3

The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

Numbers 11:13

Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they come weeping to me, saying, ‘Give us meat to eat!’

Numbers 11:4

The camp followers with them had a strong craving, and the Israelites also wept again and said, “If only we had meat to eat!

Numbers 20:3

The people quarreled with Moses and said, “Would that we had died when our kindred died before the Lord!

Numbers 21:5

The people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food.”

Romans 9:20

But who indeed are you, a human, to argue with God? Will what is molded say to the one who molds it, “Why have you made me like this?”

Revelation 13:6

It opened its mouth to speak blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven.