Catholic Public Domain Version
"And I said: “Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God! They are saying about me: ‘Does this man not speak except through parables?’ ” "
— Ezekiel 20:49, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Then said I, Ah Lord God! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables? ”
“Then said I, Ah Lord Jehovah! they say of me, Is he not a speaker of parables? ”
“Then I said, Ah Lord Yahweh! they say of me, Isn't he a speaker of parables?”
“Then I said,“O Sovereign LORD! They are saying of me,‘Does he not simply speak in eloquent figures of speech?’””
“And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God: they say of me: Doth not this man speak by parables? ”
“Then I said, Ah, Lord! they say of me, Is he not a maker of stories?”
“Then said I, Ah Lord God! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables? ”
“Son of man, set your face against the way of the south, and pour in drops toward Africa, and prophesy against the forest of the field of the meridian.
And you shall say to the meridian forest: Listen to the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and I will burn up within you every green tree and every dry tree. The flame of the kindling will not be extinguished. And every face will be burned up within it, from the south, even to the north.
And all flesh will see that I, the Lord, have kindled it, and that it will not be extinguished.”
And I said: “Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God! They are saying about me: ‘Does this man not speak except through parables?’ ”