7 Metaphors for prophecies

This prophecy of Noah is the vade mecum of slaveholders, and they never venture abroad without it.

The prophecies in Isaiah 40-66 are psalms, sharing the characteristics of all lyric Hebrew poetry.

The Elector, gaily placing his arm in mine with the intention of leading me away from the square, said, 'Well then, the prophecy was a commonplace swindle and not worth the time and money which it has cost us!'

PROPHECY, properly not a forecasting of particular events and the succession of them, but so far as it refers to the future at all is an insight into the course of things in the time to come from insight into the course of them in days gone by or now, and that is believed to be the character of Hebrew prophecy, founded on faith in the immutability of the divine order of things.

The prophecy, Is. xlii.

The prophecy is an exact picture of conditions as Nehemiah found them, so that the book of Malachi may be dated not far from 445 B.C. II.

But Hebrew prophecy never was the synonyme for prediction.

7 Metaphors for  prophecies