Verse 2

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

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,