Ezekiel 20:49
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New International Version (©1984)
Then I said, "Ah, Sovereign LORD! They are saying of me, 'Isn't he just telling parables?'"

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then I said, "O Sovereign LORD, they are saying of me, 'He only talks in riddles!'"

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! They are saying of me, ‘Is he not a maker of parables?’”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then I said, "Ah Lord GOD! They are saying of me, 'Is he not just speaking parables?'"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then I said, "Oh no! Almighty LORD, no! The people already say that I'm only telling stories."

King James Bible
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?

American King James Version
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Does he not speak parables?

American Standard Version
Then said I, Ah Lord Jehovah! they say of me, Is he not a speaker of parables?

Bible in Basic English
Then I said, Ah, Lord! they say of me, Is he not a maker of stories?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God: they say of me: Doth not this man speak by parables?

Darby Bible Translation
And I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?

English Revised Version
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Is he not a speaker of parables?

Webster's Bible Translation
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?

World English Bible
Then I said, Ah Lord Yahweh! they say of me, Isn't he a speaker of parables?

Young's Literal Translation
And I say, 'Ah, Lord Jehovah, They are saying of me, Is he not using similes?

Geneva Study Bible

Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak {z} parables?

(z) The people said that the prophet spoke darkly: therefore he desires the Lord to give them a plain declaration of it.

Wesley's Notes

20:49 Parables - So absolutely, that we cannot understand him.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

49. Ezekiel complains that by this parabolic form of prophecy he only makes himself and it a jest to his countrymen. God therefore in Eze 21:1-32 permits him to express the same prophecy more plainly.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

20:45-49 Judah and Jerusalem had been full of people, as a forest of trees, but empty of fruit. God's word prophesies against those who bring not forth the fruits of righteousness. When He will ruin a nation, who or what can save it? The plainest truths were as parables to the people. It is common for those who will not be wrought upon by the word, to blame it.


Ezekiel 17:2 "Son of man, propound a riddle and speak a parable to the house of Israel,
Matthew 13:13 "Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
John 16:25 "These things I have spoken to you in figurative language; an hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but will tell you plainly of the Father. (NASB ©1995)

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Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?

Doth. Is it not his usual custom to deal in enigmas? His figures are not to be understood; we should not trouble ourselves with them. God therefore commands the prophet to declare, in the next chapter, the same things in the plainest terms, so that they should not complain of his parables. Mt 13:13,14 Joh 16:25 Ac 17:18

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