Psalms 78:19
They said bitter words against God, saying, Is God able to make ready a table in the waste land?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
In Context
18Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire.
Cross References
Exodus 16:8And Moses said, The Lord will give you meat for your food at evening, and in the morning bread in full measure; for your outcry against the Lord has come to his ears: for what are we? your outcry is not against us but against the Lord.
Numbers 11:13Where am I to get flesh to give to all this people? For they are weeping to me and saying, Give us flesh for our food.
Numbers 21:5And crying out against God and against Moses, they said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to come to our death in the waste land? For there is no bread and no water, and this poor bread is disgusting to us.
2 Chronicles 32:19Talking of the God of Jerusalem as if he was like the gods of the peoples of the earth, the work of men's hands.
Psalms 23:5You make ready a table for me in front of my haters: you put oil on my head; my cup is overflowing.
Revelation 13:6And his mouth was open to say evil against God, and against his name and his Tent, even against those who are in heaven.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:10-40
Wonders Wrought in Behalf of Israel; The Crimes of the Israelites; 9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. 10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; 11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had showed them. 12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as a heap. 14 In the daytime… Read the whole commentary →