Psalms 78:2 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 78:2

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

KJV

Parallel translations

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DBT

I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter riddles from of old,

ASV

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

WEB

I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,

YLT

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

About this book

Old Testament

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

23 verses on the floor

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 which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
Matthew 13:34–35
All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
Proverbs 1:6
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
1 Corinthians 2:7
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
Deuteronomy 29:29
The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices2

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

The history itself from Moses to David; it is put into a psalm or song that it might be the better remembered and transmitted to posterity, and that the singing of it might affect them with the things here related, more than they would be with a bare narrative of them.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

These are called dark sayings, not because they are hard to be understood, but because they are greatly to be admired and carefully to be looked into. This is said to be fulfilled in the parables which our Saviour put forth ( Matt. xiii. 35 ), which were (as this) representations of the state of the kingdom of God among men.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Connections1

Where this verse connects

Quotation Matthew 13:35
'I will open my mouth in parables' — Matthew (Asaph titled 'the prophet'); fulfillment formula over a psalm.
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Quoted in MAT 13:35
'I will open my mouth in parables' — fulfillment formula
Quoted in MAT 13:35
hopos plerothe to rhethen dia tou prophetou — fulfillment formula applied to a PSALM ('I will open my mouth in parables'), Asaph titled 'the prophet'

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