Psalms 78:2

They have placed the dead bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints for the beasts of the earth.

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In The King James Version

I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

In Context

1A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the Gentiles have entered into your inheritance; they have polluted your holy temple. They have set Jerusalem as a place to tend fruit trees.

3They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one who would bury them.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:28And he has cast them out of their own land, with anger and fury, and with a very great indignation, and he has thrown them into a strange land, just as has been proven this day.’

Psalms 49:5Gather his holy ones to him, you who order his covenant above sacrifices.

Isaiah 46:9Remember the past ages. For I am God, and there is no other god. There is no one like me.

Matthew 13:34All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the crowds. And he did not speak to them apart from parables,

Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:2-9

The Importance of Religious Instruction. 1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: 3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 4 We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord , and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. 5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our… Read the whole commentary →

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