Psalms 78:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

I open with a simile my mouth, I bring forth hidden things of old,

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 49:4 : 4 I incline to a simile mine ear, I open with a harp my riddle:
  • Prov 1:6 : 6 For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.
  • Matt 13:34-35 : 34 All these things spake Jesus in similes to the multitudes, and without a simile he was not speaking to them, 35 that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophet, saying, `I will open in similes my mouth, I will utter things having been hidden from the foundation of the world.'
  • Mark 4:34 : 34 and without a simile he was not speaking to them, and by themselves, to his disciples he was expounding all.
  • Matt 13:11-13 : 11 And he answering said to them that -- `To you it hath been given to know the secrets of the reign of the heavens, and to these it hath not been given, 12 for whoever hath, it shall be given to him, and he shall have overabundance, and whoever hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken from him. 13 `Because of this, in similes do I speak to them, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor understand,

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    3My mouth speaketh wise things, And the meditations of my heart `are' things of understanding.

    4I incline to a simile mine ear, I open with a harp my riddle:

  • Ps 78:1
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    1An Instruction of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law, Incline your ear to sayings of my mouth.

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    35that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophet, saying, `I will open in similes my mouth, I will utter things having been hidden from the foundation of the world.'

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    6Hearken, for noble things I speak, And the opening of my lips `is' uprightness.

    7For truth doth my mouth utter, And an abomination to my lips `is' wickedness.

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    6For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.

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    1`Give ear, O heavens, and I speak; And thou dost hear, O earth, sayings of my mouth!

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    2Lo, I pray thee, I have opened my mouth, My tongue hath spoken in the palate.

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    20I speak, and there is refreshment to me, I open my lips and answer.

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    3That we have heard and do know, And our fathers have recounted to us.

  • Job 15:17-18
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    17I shew thee -- hearken to me -- And this I have seen and declare:

    18Which the wise declare -- And have not hid -- from their fathers.

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    2`Son of man, put forth a riddle, and use a simile unto the house of Israel,

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    2For the mouth of wickedness, and the mouth of deceit, Against me they have opened, They have spoken with me -- A tongue of falsehood, and words of hatred!

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    12And unto me a thing is secretly brought, And receive doth mine ear a little of it.

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    3`Who `is' this, hiding counsel without knowledge?' Therefore, I have declared, and understand not, Too wonderful for me, and I know not.

    4`Hear, I pray thee, and I -- I do speak, I ask thee, and cause thou me to know.'

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    5And yet, O that God had spoken! And doth open His lips with thee.

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    15If I have said, `I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.

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    5I have reckoned the days of old, The years of the ages.

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    11Also I -- I withhold not my mouth -- I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul.

  • Num 24:15
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    15O Lord, my lips thou dost open, And my mouth declareth Thy praise.

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    8Open thy mouth for the dumb, For the right of all sons of change.

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