Psalm 78:19 {77:19}
Good News Translation
They spoke against God and said, "Can God supply food in the desert?

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

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

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

yea

Exodus 16:8-10 And Moses said: In the evening the Lord will give you flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full: for he hath heard your murmurings, with which you have murmured against him, for what are we? your murmuring is not against us, but against the Lord. . . .

Numbers 21:5 And speaking against God and Moses, they said: Why didst thou bring us out of Egypt, to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, nor have we any waters: our soul now loatheth this very light food.

2 Chronicles 32:19 And he spoke against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, the works of the hands of men.

Job 34:37 Because he addeth blasphemy upon his sins, let him be tied fast in the mean time amongst us: and then let him provoke God to judgment with his speeches.

Romans 9:20 O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus?

Revelation 13:6 And he opened his mouth unto blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle and them that dwell in heaven.

Can God

Numbers 11:4,13 For a mixt multitude of people, that came up with them, burned with desire, sitting and weeping, the children of Israel also being joined with them, and said: Who shall give us flesh to eat? . . .

furnish.

Context
I Will Open My Mouth in Parables
18And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their desires. 19And they spoke ill of God: they said: Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?20Because he struck the rock, and the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed. Can he also give bread, or provide a table for his people?…
Cross References
Exodus 16:3
And the children of Israel said to them: Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat over the fleshpots, and ate bread to the full: Why have you brought us into this desert, that you might destroy all the multitude with famine?

Numbers 11:4
For a mixt multitude of people, that came up with them, burned with desire, sitting and weeping, the children of Israel also being joined with them, and said: Who shall give us flesh to eat?

Numbers 20:3
And making a sedition, they said: Would God we had perished among our brethren before the Lord.

Numbers 21:5
And speaking against God and Moses, they said: Why didst thou bring us out of Egypt, to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, nor have we any waters: our soul now loatheth this very light food.

Psalm 23:5
Thou hast prepared a table before me against them that afflict me. Thou hast anointed my head with oil; and my chalice which inebreateth me, how goodly is it!

Psalm 78:18
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