And the people said to me, “Will you not tell us what these things mean for us, that you are acting thus?”
“Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, ‘What are you doing?’
And when your people say to you, ‘Will you not tell us what you mean by these?’
“Your words have been hard against me, says the Lord. But you say, ‘How have we spoken against you?’
From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. But you say, ‘How shall we return?’ Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In your tithes and contributions.
And when they say to you, ‘Why do you groan?’ you shall say, ‘Because of the news that it is coming. Every heart will melt, and all hands will be feeble; every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it is coming, and it will be fulfilled,’” declares the Lord God.
Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! They are saying of me, ‘Is he not a maker of parables?’”
“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.
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