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

¹² “Say now to the ^(A)rebellious house, ‘Do you not ^(B)know what these things mean?’ Say, ‘Behold, the ^(C)king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, took its king and leaders, and brought them to him in Babylon.

⁴⁹ Then I said, “Oh, Lord God! They are saying of me, ‘Is he not just speaking in ^(A)riddles?’”

¹⁹ And the people said to me, “Will you not tell us what these things mean for us, that you are doing?”