“Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, ‘What are you doing?’
And the people said to me, “Will you not tell us what these things mean for us, that you are acting thus?”
“Say now to the rebellious house, Do you not know what these things mean? Tell them, behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took her king and her princes and brought them to him to Babylon.
Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! They are saying of me, ‘Is he not a maker of parables?’”
In the morning the word of the Lord came to me:
And when your people say to you, ‘Will you not tell us what you mean by these?’