Psalm 78:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings 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 mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

Psalm 49:5

Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, When iniquity at my heels compasseth me about?

Proverbs 1:6

To understand a proverb, and a figure; The words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

Isaiah 46:9

Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me;

Mark 4:34

and without a parable spake he not unto them: but privately to his own disciples he expounded all things.

Deuteronomy 29:28

and the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day.