Psalms 78:30

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Before they had turned from what they craved,while the food was still in their mouths,

Hebrew Names Version
They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

King James Version
They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

English Standard Version
But before they had satisfied their craving, while the food was still in their mouths,

New Century Version
While they were still eating, and while the food was still in their mouths,

New English Translation
They were not yet filled up, their food was still in their mouths,

Amplified Bible
Before they had satisfied their desire, And while their food was in their mouths,

New American Standard Bible
Yet before they had abandoned their longing, While their food was in their mouths,

World English Bible
They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

Geneva Bible (1587)
They were not turned from their lust, but the meate was yet in their mouthes,

Legacy Standard Bible
Before they had satisfied their desire,While their food was in their mouths,

Berean Standard Bible
Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,

Contemporary English Version
But before they had swallowed the last bite,

Complete Jewish Bible
They were still fulfilling their craving, the food was still in their mouths,

Darby Translation
They were not alienated from their lust, their meat was yet in their mouths,

Easy-to-Read Version
But before they were fully satisfied, while the food was still in their mouths,

George Lamsa Translation
They relinquished not their craving. But while their food was yet in their mouths,

Good News Translation
But they had not yet satisfied their craving and were still eating,

Lexham English Bible
They had not yet turned aside from their craving, while their food was still in their mouth,

Literal Translation
They were not estranged from their lust; their food was still in their mouths,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So they ate & were fylled, for he gaue them their owne desyre. They were not dispoynted of their lust.

American Standard Version
They were not estranged from that which they desired, Their food was yet in their mouths,

Bible in Basic English
But they were not turned from their desires; and while the food was still in their mouths,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
They were not estranged from their craving, their food was yet in their mouths,

King James Version (1611)
They were not estranged from their lust: but while their meate was yet in their mouthes,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But whyle the meate was yet in their mouthes, the heauy wrath of God came vpon them, and slue the welthyest of them: and made the chosen men of Israel to stoupe.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They were not disappointed of their desire: but when their food was yet in their mouth,

English Revised Version
They were not estranged from their lust, their meat was yet in their mouths,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
thei weren not defraudid of her desier. Yit her metis weren in her mouth;

Update Bible Version
They were not estranged from that which they desired, Their food was yet in their mouths,

Webster's Bible Translation
They were not estranged from their desire: but while their meat [was] yet in their mouths,

New King James Version
They were not deprived of their craving; But while their food was still in their mouths,

New Living Translation
But before they satisfied their craving, while the meat was yet in their mouths,

New Life Bible
But before they had eaten all they wanted, even while it was still in their mouths,

New Revised Standard
But before they had satisfied their craving, while the food was still in their mouths,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
They had not turned away from what they had longed for, Yet was their food in their mouth,

Douay-Rheims Bible
(77-30) they were not defrauded of that which they craved. As yet their meat was in their mouth:

Revised Standard Version
But before they had sated their craving, while the food was still in their mouths,

Young's Literal Translation
They have not been estranged from their desire, Yet [is] their food in their mouth,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Before they had satisfied their desire, While their food was in their mouths,

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
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

But: Numbers 11:33, Numbers 11:34, Numbers 22:20-22, Proverbs 1:32, Luke 16:19-23

Reciprocal: Job 20:23 - he is about Psalms 106:14 - But Ezekiel 7:19 - they shall not Daniel 5:5 - the same Luke 12:20 - God 1 Corinthians 11:30 - many 1 John 2:16 - the lust of the flesh

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They were not estranged from their lust,.... By the goodness and liberality of God unto them, they were not brought to repentance for their sin of lusting; nor did they abstain from their fleshly lusts, or deny themselves of them, which the grace of God teaches to do; or else the sense is, what they lusted after, flesh, was not withheld from them, or they restrained from eating it; they were indulged with it for a whole month together; to which agrees what follows:

but while their meat was yet in their mouths; the meat of the quails, while it was between their teeth, ere it was chewed, and before it was swallowed down, while they were rolling this sweet morsel under their tongues, and were gorging themselves with it, destruction came upon them, as follows; just as Belshazzar, while he was feasting with his nobles, in the midst of his mirth and jollity, was slain by the Persians, Daniel 5:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They were not estranged from their lust - literally, “They were not made strangers to;” that is, in regard to their lusts or desires they were not in the condition of “foreigners” or aliens; they were not separated from them. The word “lusts” here means “desires, wishes.” It is not used here in the restricted sense in which it is now with us. The reference is to their desire for food different from manna - for flesh; and the idea is, that they did not restrain their intense desire even when it should have been fully satisfied. They indulged to excess, and the consequence was that many of them perished.

But while their meat was yet in their mouths - Even while they were eating, and were indulging in this unrestrained manner.