Psalm 78:18
Modern Translations
New International Version
They willfully put God to the test by demanding the food they craved.

New Living Translation
They stubbornly tested God in their hearts, demanding the foods they craved.

English Standard Version
They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.

Berean Study Bible
They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.

New American Standard Bible
And in their heart they put God to the test By asking for food that suited their taste.

NASB 1995
And in their heart they put God to the test By asking food according to their desire.

NASB 1977
And in their heart they put God to the test By asking food according to their desire.

Amplified Bible
And in their hearts they put God to the test By asking for food according to their [selfish] appetite.

Christian Standard Bible
They deliberately tested God, demanding the food they craved.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They deliberately tested God, demanding the food they craved.

Contemporary English Version
They stubbornly tested God and demanded from him what they wanted to eat.

Good News Translation
They deliberately put God to the test by demanding the food they wanted.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They deliberately tested God by demanding the food they craved.

International Standard Version
To test God was in their minds, when they demanded food to satisfy their cravings.

NET Bible
They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

New King James Version
And they tested God in their heart By asking for the food of their fancy.

King James 2000 Bible
And they tested God in their heart by asking food for their lust.

New Heart English Bible
They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

World English Bible
They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

American King James Version
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

American Standard Version
And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire.

A Faithful Version
And they tempted God in their heart by asking food for their lust.

Darby Bible Translation
And they tempted God in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;

English Revised Version
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they tempted God in their heart by asking food for their desire.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And tempted God in their heartes in requiring meate for their lust.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And they temped god in their heartes: in requiring meate for their lust.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
They tempted God in their hertes, and requyred meate for their lust,
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And they try God in their heart, "" To ask food for their lust.

Young's Literal Translation
And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust.

Smith's Literal Translation
And they will tempt God in their heart to ask food for their soul.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their desires.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking for food according to their desires.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And they tempted God in their heart, asking for food for themselves.

Lamsa Bible
And they tempted God in their hearts by asking food to satisfy their desires.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And they tried God in their heart By asking food for their craving.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And they tempted God in their hearts, in asking meat for the desire of their souls.
















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