Psalm 78:2 {77:2}
Good News Translation
I am going to use wise sayings and explain mysteries from the past,

New Revised Standard Version
I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old,

Contemporary English Version
I will give instruction and explain the mystery of what happened long ago.

New American Bible
I will open my mouth in a parable, unfold the puzzling events of the past.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning.

I will

Psalm 49:4 I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on the psaltery.

Matthew 13:13,34,35 Therefore do I speak to them in parables: because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. . . .

dark sayings

Proverbs 1:6 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Matthew 13:11-13 Who answered and said to them: Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven: but to them it is not given. . . .

Mark 4:34 And without parable he did not speak unto them; but apart, he explained all things to his disciples.

Context
I Will Open My Mouth in Parables
1Understanding for Asaph. Attend, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 2I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning.3How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have told us.…
Cross References
Matthew 13:35
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.

Psalm 49:4
I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on the psaltery.

Proverbs 1:6
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Ezekiel 24:3
And thou shalt speak by a figure a parable to the provoking house, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Set on a pot, set it on, I say, and put water in it.

Psalm 78:1
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