Lines 20-24:
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
Eliot's Note:
20. Cf. Ezekiel II, i.
Context:
Ezekiel 2:1, from the ESV translation of the Bible:
And he said unto me, “Son of Man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.”
Eliot continues his allusion to the Bible through line 24.