Psalms 78:28

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He made them fall in the camp,all around the tents.

Hebrew Names Version
He let them fall in the midst of their camp, Around their habitations.

King James Version
And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.

English Standard Version
he let them fall in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.

New Century Version
He made the birds fall inside the camp, all around the tents.

New English Translation
He caused them to fall right in the middle of their camp, all around their homes.

Amplified Bible
And He let them fall in the midst of their camp, Around their tents.

New American Standard Bible
He let them fall in the midst of their camp, All around their dwellings.

World English Bible
He let them fall in the midst of their camp, Around their habitations.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And hee made it fall in the middes of their campe euen round about their habitations.

Legacy Standard Bible
He caused them to fall in the midst of His camp,All around His dwelling places.

Berean Standard Bible
He felled them in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.

Contemporary English Version
Then God made the birds fall in the camp of his people near their tents.

Complete Jewish Bible
He let them fall in the middle of their camp, all around their tents.

Darby Translation
And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations:

Easy-to-Read Version
The birds fell in the middle of the camp, all around their tents.

George Lamsa Translation
And he let these fall in the midst of their camp, round about their tents.

Good News Translation
they fell in the middle of the camp all around the tents.

Lexham English Bible
He caused them to fall in the midst of his camp, all around his dwellings.

Literal Translation
And He made them fall amidst their camp, all around to their tents.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He made flesh to rayne vpon them as thicke as dust, and fethered foules like the sonde of ye see.

American Standard Version
And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, Round about their habitations.

Bible in Basic English
And he let it come down into their resting-place, round about their tents.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And He let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their dwellings.

King James Version (1611)
And hee let it fall in the midst of their campe, round about their habitations.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
He let it fall among their tentes: euen rounde about their pauilions.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they fell into the midst of their camp, round about their tents.

English Revised Version
And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And tho felden doun in the myddis of her castels; aboute the tabernaclis of hem.

Update Bible Version
And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, Round about their habitations.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he let [it] fall in the midst of their camp, around their habitations.

New King James Version
And He let them fall in the midst of their camp, All around their dwellings.

New Living Translation
He caused the birds to fall within their camp and all around their tents.

New Life Bible
He let them fall in the place where they were staying, all around their tents.

New Revised Standard
he let them fall within their camp, all around their dwellings.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And let them fall in the midst of their camp, - Round about their habitations.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(77-28) And they fell in the midst of their camp, round about their pavilions.

Revised Standard Version
he let them fall in the midst of their camp, all around their habitations.

Young's Literal Translation
And causeth [it] to fall in the midst of His camp, Round about His tabernacles.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then He let them fall in the midst of their camp, Round about their dwellings.

Contextual Overview

⁹The Ephraimites, armed to the teeth, ran off when the battle began. They were cowards to God's Covenant, refused to walk by his Word. They forgot what he had done— marvels he'd done right before their eyes. He performed miracles in plain sight of their parents in Egypt, out on the fields of Zoan. He split the Sea and they walked right through it; he piled the waters to the right and the left. He led them by day with a cloud, led them all the night long with a fiery torch. He split rocks in the wilderness, gave them all they could drink from underground springs; He made creeks flow out from sheer rock, and water pour out like a river. ¹⁷All they did was sin even more, rebel in the desert against the High God. They tried to get their own way with God, clamored for favors, for special attention. They whined like spoiled children, "Why can't God give us a decent meal in this desert? Sure, he struck the rock and the water flowed, creeks cascaded from the rock. But how about some fresh-baked bread? How about a nice cut of meat?" ²¹When God heard that, he was furious— his anger flared against Jacob, he lost his temper with Israel. It was clear they didn't believe God, had no intention of trusting in his help. But God helped them anyway, commanded the clouds and gave orders that opened the gates of heaven. He rained down showers of manna to eat, he gave them the Bread of Heaven. They ate the bread of the mighty angels; he sent them all the food they could eat. He let East Wind break loose from the skies, gave a strong push to South Wind. This time it was birds that rained down— succulent birds, an abundance of birds. He aimed them right for the center of their camp; all round their tents there were birds. They ate and had their fill; he handed them everything they craved on a platter. But their greed knew no bounds; they stuffed their mouths with more and more. Finally, God was fed up, his anger erupted— he cut down their brightest and best, he laid low Israel's finest young men. ³²And—can you believe it?—they kept right on sinning; all those wonders and they still wouldn't believe! So their lives dribbled off to nothing— nothing to show for their lives but a ghost town. When he cut them down, they came running for help; they turned and pled for mercy. They gave witness that God was their rock, that High God was their redeemer, But they didn't mean a word of it; they lied through their teeth the whole time. They could not have cared less about him, wanted nothing to do with his Covenant. ³⁸And God? Compassionate! Forgave the sin! Didn't destroy! Over and over he reined in his anger, restrained his considerable wrath. He knew what they were made of; he knew there wasn't much to them, How often in the desert they had spurned him, tried his patience in those wilderness years. Time and again they pushed him to the limit, provoked Israel's Holy God. How quickly they forgot what he'd done, forgot their day of rescue from the enemy, When he did miracles in Egypt, wonders on the plain of Zoan. He turned the River and its streams to blood— not a drop of water fit to drink. He sent flies, which ate them alive, and frogs, which bedeviled them. He turned their harvest over to caterpillars, everything they had worked for to the locusts. He flattened their grapevines with hail; a killing frost ruined their orchards. He pounded their cattle with hail, let thunderbolts loose on their herds. His anger flared, a wild firestorm of havoc, An advance guard of disease-carrying angels to clear the ground, preparing the way before him. He didn't spare those people, he let the plague rage through their lives. He killed all the Egyptian firstborns, lusty infants, offspring of Ham's virility. Then he led his people out like sheep, took his flock safely through the wilderness. He took good care of them; they had nothing to fear. The Sea took care of their enemies for good. He brought them into his holy land, this mountain he claimed for his own. He scattered everyone who got in their way; he staked out an inheritance for them— the tribes of Israel all had their own places.

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Exodus 16:13 - the quails

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he let it fall in the midst of their camp,.... Or, "his camps" l; the four camps of Israel; for so many there were, Numbers 2:1 or the camp of God, where he dwelt, and before which he went as the General, Leader, and Commander of them; in the midst of this, or by it, by the side of it, Numbers 11:31, the flesh or feathered fowl fell, so that they had no trouble to fetch it in; and here it fell by the order and direction of the Lord himself; he caused it to fall, without whose knowledge and will a sparrow does not fall to the ground, Matthew 10:29. These creatures fell either, as some think, being wearied with their flight over the Red sea; or through their wings being broken by the vehemency of the wind that brought them, as others; or by the moistness of the south wind, which wetted their wings, and made them flag and fall; but, by whatever means this was done, it was so ordered by the Lord that they should fall, and fall just in the place where they did:

round about their habitations; for the space of a day's journey on every side, where they lay in heaps, here and there, two cubits high,

Numbers 11:31, so that they could gather them with great ease, and had no need of arrows to shoot at them, nor nets to spread for them; they were ready at hand, and in great plenty.

l מחנהו "castrorum ejus", Pagninus, Vatablus, Gejerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And he let it fall in the midst of their camp ... - It was brought to their very doors; they had not to go and seek it abroad.