I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,
I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my riddle on the harp.
Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?
to understand a proverb, and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.
Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; [I am] God, and there is none like me;
Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately to his own talmidim he explained all things.
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 at this day.