Psalms 49:4
I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
Context
This verse from Psalms Chapter 49 connects to 10 cross-references. A wisdom psalm of the Korahites addressing all peoples and meditating on the fate of those who trust in wealth and boast of great riches. Even the wise die and leave their wealth to others. But God will ransom the …
Other Translations
I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
I incline to a simile mine ear, I open with a harp my riddle:
I will put my teaching into a story; I will make my dark sayings clear with music.
Cross References
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I …
For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; …
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Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in …
Then said I, Ah Lord God! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of …
With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the …