Psalm 78:2 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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

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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

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 the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?

Proverbs 1:6

to understand a proverb, and the interpretation; 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

But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.

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 it is this day.