Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Then said I, Ah Lord Jehovah! they say of me, Is he not a speaker of parables?
WEB
Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, they are saying of me, ‘Is he not just telling parables?’”
YLT
And I say, `Ah, Lord Jehovah, They are saying of me, Is he not using similes?
DBT
And I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentEzekiel — The exile prophet — priest taken to Babylon in 597 BC, writing to a community still convinced the exile is temporary. Wheels within wheels, the glory departing, dry bones coming to life, and the city whose new name is YHWH Shammah — ‘the LORD is there.’
- Author
- Ezekiel, son of Buzi the priest (1:3)
- Date
- Dated oracles 593 BC (1:1, fifth year of Jehoiachin's exile) to 571 BC (29:17)