Quotes about Interpretation
When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, “Look, people are coming down from the mountains!” But Zebul replied, “The shadows of the mountains look like men to you.”
— Judges 9:36
The letter you sent us has been translated and read in my presence.
— Ezra 4:18
Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
— Job 20:1
Who is like the wise man? Who knows the interpretation of a matter? A man’s wisdom brightens his face, and the sternness of his face is changed.
— Ecclesiastes 8:1
Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
— Isaiah 36:11
Again the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “What do you see?” “I see a boiling pot,” I replied, “and it is tilting toward us from the north.”
— Jeremiah 1:13
not to the many peoples of unfamiliar speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.
— Ezekiel 3:6
“Now say to this rebellious house: ‘Do you not know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, carried off its king and officials, and brought them back with him to Babylon.
— Ezekiel 17:12
Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, they are saying of me, ‘Is he not just telling parables?’”
— Ezekiel 20:49
Then the people asked me, “Won’t you tell us what these things you are doing mean to us?”
— Ezekiel 24:19
When your people ask you, ‘Won’t you explain to us what you mean by these?’
— Ezekiel 37:18
he said to them, “I have had a dream, and my spirit is anxious to understand it.”
— Daniel 2:3