¹⁸ And when your people say to you, “Will you not show us what you mean by these?”

¹⁹ Then the people said to me, “Will you not tell us what these things mean for us, that you are acting this way?”

⁹ Mortal, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, “What are you doing?”^(A)

⁴⁹ Then I said, “Ah Lord God! They are saying of me, ‘Is he not a maker of allegories?’ ”^(A)

¹² Say now to the rebellious house: Do you not know what these things mean? Tell them: The king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, took its king and its officials, and brought them back with him to Babylon.^(A)