Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And they will tempt God in their heart to ask food for their soul.
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.
Bible in Basic English
Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire.
Darby Translation
And they tempted God in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;
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 » Water
Gluttony » Instances of » Israel
References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 78:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Lessons From Israel's Past
17 And they will yet add to sin against him to embitter the Most High in a dry land. 18 And they will tempt God in their heart to ask food for their soul. 19 And they will speak against God; they said, Will God be able to arrange a table in the desert?
Cross References
Numbers 11:4
And the scraped together which in its midst will long a longing; and the sons of Israel also will turn back and weep, and they will say, Who will feed us with flesh?
1 Corinthians 10:9
Neither should we tempt Christ, as also some of them tempted, and were destroyed by serpents.
Exodus 16:2-3
And all the assembly of the sons of Israel will murmur against Moses and against Aaron in the desert
Deuteronomy 6:16
Ye shall not try Jehovah your God, as ye tempted in Massah.
Psalm 95:9
When your fathers tempted me, they proved me; also they saw my works.
Psalm 106:14-15
And they will desire a desire in the desert, and they will tempt God in the waste.
1 Corinthians 10:6
And these things were our types, that we be not eagerly desirous of evil things, as they also eagerly desired.
James 4:2-3
Ye eagerly desire, and have not: ye kill, and are zealous, and cannot succeed: ye fight and wage war, and ye have not, because ye ask not.