Psalm 78:2

English Standard Version 2016

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

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

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

to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles.

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

Why should I fear in times of trouble, when the iniquity of those who cheat me surrounds me,

remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me,