Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire.
New American Standard Bible
By asking
King James Version
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
Holman Bible
demanding the food they craved.
International Standard Version
To test God was in their minds, when they demanded food to satisfy their cravings.
A Conservative Version
And they challenged God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
American Standard Version
And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire.
Amplified
And in their hearts they put God to the test
By asking for food according to their [selfish] appetite.
Darby Translation
And they tempted God in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;
Julia Smith Translation
And they will tempt God in their heart to ask food for their soul.
King James 2000
And they tested God in their heart by asking food for their lust.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And they tested God in their heart [by] asking food {for their craving}.
Modern King James verseion
And they tempted God in their heart by asking food for their lust.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They tempted God in their hearts, and required meat for their lust.
NET Bible
They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.
New Heart English Bible
They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
The Emphasized Bible
They put GOD to the proof in their heart, By asking food to their mind:
Webster
And they tempted God in their heart by asking food for their desire.
World English Bible
They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
Youngs Literal Translation
And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust.
Themes
Blessing » Temporal » From God » israelites » Supplying
Gluttony » Instances of » Israel
References
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 78:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Lessons From Israel's Past
17 And they went on sinning against him even more, turning away from the Most High in the waste land; 18 Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire. 19 They said bitter words against God, saying, Is God able to make ready a table in the waste land?
Cross References
Numbers 11:4
And the mixed band of people who went with them were overcome by desire: and the children of Israel, weeping again, said, Who will give us flesh for our food?
1 Corinthians 10:9
And let us not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did, and came to their death by snakes.
Exodus 16:2-3
And all the children of Israel were crying out against Moses and Aaron in the waste land:
Deuteronomy 6:16
Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did in Massah.
Psalm 95:9
When your fathers put me to the test and saw my power and my work.
Psalm 106:14-15
They gave way to their evil desires in the waste land, and put God to the test in the dry places.
1 Corinthians 10:6
Now these things were for an example to us, so that our hearts might not go after evil things, as they did.
James 4:2-3
You are burning with desire, and have not your desire, so you put men to death; you are full of envy, and you are not able to get your desire, so you are fighting and making war; you have not your desire, because you do not make request for it.