Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust.
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;
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.
Themes
Blessing » Temporal » From God » israelites » Supplying » Water
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 add still to sin against Him, To provoke the Most High in the dry place. 18 And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust. 19 And they speak against God -- they said: 'Is God able to array a table in a wilderness?'
Cross References
Numbers 11:4
And the rabble who are in its midst have lusted greatly, and the sons of Israel also turn back and weep, and say, 'Who doth give us flesh?
1 Corinthians 10:9
neither may we tempt the Christ, as also certain of them did tempt, and by the serpents did perish;
Exodus 16:2-3
And all the company of the sons of Israel murmur against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;
Deuteronomy 6:16
'Ye do not try Jehovah your God as ye tried in Massah;
Psalm 95:9
Where your fathers have tried Me, Have proved Me, yea, have seen My work.
Psalm 106:14-15
And they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert.
1 Corinthians 10:6
and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.
James 4:2-3
ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;