Psalms 78:2
I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
In Context
1Understanding for Asaph. Attend, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
3How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:28And he hath cast them out of their land, in anger and in wrath, and in very great indignation, and hath thrown them into a strange land, as it is seen this day.
Psalms 49:5I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on the psaltery.
Isaiah 46:9Remember the former age, for I am God, and there is no God beside, neither is there the like to me:
Matthew 13:34All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: and without parables he did not speak to them.
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 →