¹⁸ And when the children of your people say to you, Will you not make clear to us what these things have to do with us?

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

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?

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;

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