I will open my mouth in parables (LXX/NT). I will utter dark sayings of old,
And he did not speak to them apart from a parable, but privately he explained all things to his disciples.
I will incline my ear to a parable. I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
to understand a proverb, and a figure, the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
And 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.
Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels encompasses me about?
Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is none else. [I am] God, and there is none like me,