Psalm 78:19 {77:19}
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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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Additional Translations
They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?Yes, they spoke against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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