¹⁸ “And when the children of your people speak to you, saying, ^(A)‘Will you not show us what you mean by these?’—

¹⁹ And the people said to me, ^(A)“Will you not tell us what these things signify to us, that you behave so?”

⁹ “Son of man, has not the house of Israel, ^(A)the rebellious house, said to you, ^(B)‘What are you doing?’

⁴⁹ Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! They say of me, ‘Does he not speak ^(A)parables?’ ”

¹² “Say now to ^(A)the rebellious house: ‘Do you not know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Indeed ^(B)the king of Babylon went to Jerusalem and took its king and princes, and led them with him to Babylon.