⁹ Son of man, has not Israel, the uncontrolled people, said to you, What are you doing?

¹² Say now to this uncontrolled people, Are these things not clear to you? Say to them, See, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and took its king and its rulers away with him to Babylon;

¹⁹ And the people said to me, Will you not make clear to us the sense of these things; is it for us you do them?

⁴⁹ Then I said, Ah, Lord! they say of me, Is he not a maker of stories?

⁵ And they, if they give ear to you or if they do not give ear (for they are an uncontrolled people), will see that there has been a prophet among them.

⁶ And you, son of man, have no fear of them or of their words, even if sharp thorns are round you and you are living among scorpions: have no fear of their words and do not be overcome by their looks, for they are an uncontrolled people.

⁷ And you are to give them my words, if they give ear to you or if they do not: for they are uncontrolled.

⁸ But you, son of man, give ear to what I say to you, and do not be uncontrolled like that uncontrolled people: let your mouth be open and take what I give you.

¹ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

² Son of man, you are living among an uncontrolled people, who have eyes to see but see not, and ears for hearing but they do not give ear; for they are an uncontrolled people.

³ And you, O son of man, by day, before their eyes, get ready the vessels of one who is taken away, and go away from your place to another place before their eyes: it may be that they will see, though they are an uncontrolled people.