The watchman says, The morning has come, but night is still to come: if you have questions to put, put them, and come back again.

Have I given orders for such a day as this? a day for keeping yourselves from pleasure? is it only a question of the bent head, of putting on haircloth, and being seated in the dust? is this what seems to you a holy day, well-pleasing to the Lord?

And I saw that there was no man, even no wise man among them, who might give an answer to my questions.

The Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, says, Will you put a question to me about the things which are to come, or will you give me orders about my sons, and the work of my hands?