¹⁸ When the children of your people shall speak to you, saying, Will you not show us what you mean by these?

⁹ Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, What do you?

¹⁹ The people said to me, Won't you tell us what these things are to us, that you do so?

¹² Say now to the rebellious house, Don't you know what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took the king of it, and the princes of it, and brought them to him to Babylon:

⁴⁹ Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh! they say of me, Isn't he a speaker of parables?