Ezekiel 20:49
Good News Translation
But I protested, "Sovereign LORD, don't make me do it! Everyone is already complaining that I always speak in riddles."

New Revised Standard Version
Then I said, “Ah Lord GOD! they are saying of me, ‘Is he not a maker of allegories?’”

Contemporary English Version
But I complained, "LORD God, I don't want to do that! People already say I confuse them with my messages."

New American Bible
But I said, “Ah! Lord GOD, they are saying about me, ‘Is not this the one who is forever spinning parables?’ ”

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Doth.

Matthew 13:13,14 Therefore do I speak to them in parables: because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. . . .

John 16:25 These things I have spoken to you in proverbs. The hour cometh when I will no longer speak to you in proverbs, but will shew you plainly of the Father.

Acts 17:18 And certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoics disputed with him. And some said: What is it that this word sower would say? But others: He seemeth to be a setter forth of new gods. Because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.

Context
A Prophecy Against the South
48And all flesh shall see, that I the Lord have kindled it, and it shall not be quenched. 49And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God: they say of me: Doth not this man speak by parables?
Cross References
Matthew 13:13
Therefore do I speak to them in parables: because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

John 16:25
These things I have spoken to you in proverbs. The hour cometh when I will no longer speak to you in proverbs, but will shew you plainly of the Father.

Ezekiel 4:14
And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God, behold my soul hath not been defiled, and from my infancy even till now, I have not eaten any thing that died of itself, or was torn by beasts, and no unclean flesh hath entered into my mouth.

Ezekiel 12:9
Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the provoking house, said to thee: What art thou doing?

Ezekiel 17:2
Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel,

Ezekiel 21:1
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Ezekiel 24:3
And thou shalt speak by a figure a parable to the provoking house, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Set on a pot, set it on, I say, and put water in it.

Ezekiel 37:18
And when the children of thy people shall speak to thee, saying: Wilt thou not tell us what thou meanest by this?

Hosea 12:10
And I have spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and I have used similitudes by the ministry of the prophets.

Ezekiel 20:48
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