Ezekiel 17:2 Cross References - DouayRheims

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

⁸ The trees went to anoint a king over them: and they said to the olive tree: Reign thou over us. ⁹ And it answered: Can I leave my fatness, which both gods and men make use of, to come to be promoted among the trees? ¹⁰ And the trees said to the fig tree: Come thou and reign over us. ¹¹ And it answered them: Can I leave my sweetness, and my delicious fruits, and go to be promoted among the other trees? ¹² And the trees said to the vine: Come thou and reign over us. ¹³ And it answered them: Can I forsake my wine, that cheereth God and men, and be promoted among the other trees? ¹⁴ And all the trees said to the bramble: Come thou and reign over us. ¹⁵ And it answered them: If, indeed, you mean to make me king, come ye, and rest under my shadow: but if you mean it not, let fire come out from the bramble, and devour the cedars of Libanus.

¹² And Samson said to them: I will propose to you a riddle, which if you declare unto me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty shirts, and as many coats: ¹³ But if you shall not be able to declare it, you shall give me thirty shirts and the same number of coats. They answered him: Put forth the riddle, that we may hear it. ¹⁴ And he said to them: Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not for three days expound the riddle. ¹⁵ And when the seventh day came, they said to the wife of Samson: Sooth thy husband, and persuade him to tell thee what the riddle meaneth. But if thou wilt not do it, we will burn thee, and thy father's house. Have you called us to the wedding on purpose to strip us? ¹⁶ So she wept before Samson and complained, saying: Thou hatest me, and dost not love me: therefore thou wilt not expound to me the riddle, which thou hast proposed to the sons of my people. But he answered: I would not tell it to my father and mother: and how can I tell it to thee? ¹⁷ So she wept before him the seven days of the feast: and, at length, on the seventh day, as she was troublesome to him, he expounded it. And she immediately told her countrymen. ¹⁸ And they, on the seventh day before the sun went down, said to him: What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said to them: If you had not ploughed with my heifer, you had not found out my riddle. ¹⁹ And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he went down to Ascalon, and slew there thirty men whose garments he took away, and gave to them that had declared the riddle. And being exceeding angry, he went up to his father's house:

¹ And the Lord sent Nathan to David: and when he was come to him, he said to him: There were two men in one city, the one rich, and the other poor. ² The rich man had exceeding many sheep and oxen. ³ But the poor man had nothing at all but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up, and which had grown up in his house together with his children, eating of his bread, and drinking of his cup, and sleeping in his bosom: and it was unto him as a daughter. ⁴ And when a certain stranger was come to the rich man, he spared to take of his own sheep and oxen, to make a feast for that stranger, who was come to him, but took the poor man's ewe, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.

⁴⁹ And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God: they say of me: Doth not this man speak by parables?

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.

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

¹³ Therefore do I speak to them in parables: because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. ¹⁴ And the prophecy of Isaias is fulfilled in them, who saith: By hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand: and seeing you shall see, and shall not perceive.

³⁵ That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.

³³ And with many such parables, he spoke to them the word, according as they were able to hear. ³⁴ And without parable he did not speak unto them; but apart, he explained all things to his disciples.

¹² We see now through a glass in a dark manner: but then face to face. Now I know in part: but then I shall know even as I am known.