Psalm 78:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

I will open my mouth in a parable (in instruction by numerous examples); I will utter dark sayings of old [that hide important truth]–[Matt. 13:34, 35.]

American Standard Version (1901)

I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,

Common English Bible

I will open my mouth with a proverb. I’ll declare riddles from days long gone—

Catholic Public Domain Version

They have placed the dead bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints for the beasts of the earth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be meat for the fowls of the air: the flesh of thy saints for the beasts of the earth.

Psalm 78:2 Cross References

Psalm 49:4

I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the harp.

Psalm 49:5

Why should I fear in times of trouble, when the iniquity of my persecutors surrounds me,

Proverbs 1:6

to understand a proverb and a figure, the words of the wise and their riddles.

Isaiah 46:9

remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like me,

Mark 4:34

he did not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything in private to his disciples.

Deuteronomy 29:28

The Lord uprooted them from their land in anger, fury, and great wrath and cast them into another land, as is now the case.’