I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
But without a parable spoke he not to them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.
I will incline my ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying on the harp.
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
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.
Why should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass 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,