In that day one will take up a parable against you - The mashal or likeness may, in itself, be any speech in which one thing is liken…

Shall one take up a parable against you — that is, the enemies will repeat in mockery the mournful lamentations with which you lam…

The verse is in broken sentences; and therefore interpreters vary. But the meaning of the Prophet appears to me to be simply this: In that day …

In that day shall [one] take up a parable against you Making use of your name, as a byword, a proverb, a taunt, and a jee…

Woe to the people who devise evil during the night, and rise early to carry it into execution! It is bad to commit mischief on a sudden impulse, mu…