Psa 49:4, 78:2, Eze 17:2-8 | ESV | STEP | I will incline my ear to a proverb ; I will solve my riddle to the music of the lyre .

t[See ver. 5 above]

Psalms 49:4

4 I will incline my ear to ^aa proverb;
I will solve my ^briddle to the music of the lyre.

Psalms 78:2

2 ^cI will open my mouth ^din a parable;
I will utter dark sayings from of old,

Ezekiel 17:2-8

2 ^e“Son of man, ^fpropound a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel; 3 say, Thus says the Lord God: ^gA great eagle ^hwith great wings and long pinions, ⁱrich in plumage of many colors, came ^jto Lebanon ^kand took the top of the cedar. 4 He broke off the topmost of its young twigs and carried it to a land of trade and set it in a city of merchants. 5 Then he took of the seed of the land ^land planted it in fertile soil. ^{▼▼Hebrew in a field of seed} He placed it beside abundant waters. ⁿHe set it like a willow twig, 6 and it sprouted and became a ^olow ^pspreading vine, and its branches turned toward him, and its roots remained where it stood. So it became a vine and produced branches and put out boughs.

7 ^q“And there was another great eagle with great wings and much plumage, ^rand behold, this vine bent its roots toward him and shot forth its branches toward him from ^sthe bed where it was planted, that he might water it. 8 ^tIt had been planted on good soil by abundant waters, that it might produce branches and bear fruit and become a noble vine.