Psalm 78:2 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

² The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot with the bow: they have turned back in the day of battle.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² 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)

² I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,

Common English Bible

² I will open my mouth with a proverb. I’ll declare riddles from days long gone—

Catholic Public Domain Version

² 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

² 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

1 and their sepulchres shall be their houses for ever. Their dwelling places to all generations: they have called their lands by their names.

Psalm 49:5

2 And man when he was in honour did not understand; he is compared to senseless beasts, and is become like to them.

Proverbs 1:6

3 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils.

Isaiah 46:9

Our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.

Mark 4:34

AND they came over the strait of the sea into the country of the Gerasens.

Deuteronomy 29:28

If thou be driven as far as the poles of heaven, the Lord thy God will fetch thee back from thence,