Son of man, propose an enigma and use a parable to the house of Israel;
And saying, Ah, Lord Jehovah, they say to me, Does he not use parables?
So that that spoken by the prophet might be filled up; saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will declare things having been hid from the foundation of the world.
For now we see by a mirror in an enigma; then face to face: now I know by parts; and then shall I know as I was known.
And I spake by the prophets, and I multiplied the vision, and by the hand of the prophets I will use similitudes.
And use a parable against the house of contradiction and say to them, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Set on the pot, set on, and also pour water into it:
And the word of Jehovah will be to me, saying,
And all flesh knew that I Jehovah brought forth my sword from its sheath: it shall no more turn back
If Gilead nothing? Surely they were vanity: in Gilgal they sacrificed oxen; also their altars as heaps upon the furrows of the field.