I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old,
he did not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything in private to his disciples.
I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the harp.
to understand a proverb and a figure, the words of the wise and their riddles.
The Lord uprooted them from their land in anger, fury, and great wrath and cast them into another land, as is now the case.’
Why should I fear in times of trouble, when the iniquity of my persecutors surrounds me,
remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like me,