Psalm 78:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² 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

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

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 none like me,

Mark 4:34

he did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

Deuteronomy 29:28

and the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and cast them into another land, as at this day.’