Mortal, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, “What are you doing?”
In the morning the word of the Lord came to me:
Say now to the rebellious house: Do you not know what these things mean? Tell them: The king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, took its king and its officials, and brought them back with him to Babylon.
Then I said, “Ah Lord God! They are saying of me, ‘Is he not a maker of allegories?’ ”
Then the people said to me, “Will you not tell us what these things mean for us, that you are acting this way?”
And when your people say to you, “Will you not show us what you mean by these?”