Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,