16. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hearken not to the words of the prophets that prophesy to you, and deceive you: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord.
17. They say tothem that blaspheme me: The Lord hath said: You shall have peace: and to every one that walketh in the perverseness of his own heart, they have said: No evil shall come to you.
18. For who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord, and hath seen and heard his word? Who hath considered his word and heard it?
19. Behold the whirlwind of the Lord's indignation shall come forth, and a tempest shall break out and come upon the head of the wicked.
20. The wrath of the Lord shall not return till he execute it, and till he accomplish the thought of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand his counsel.
21. I did not send prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
22. If they stood in my counsel, and had made my words known to my people, I should have turned them from their evil way and from their wicked doings.
23. Am I, think ye, a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off?
24. Shall a man be hid in secret places, and I not see him, saith the Lord? do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord?
25. I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesylies in my name, and say: I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
26. How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, and that prophesy the delusions of their own heart?
27. Who seek to make my people forget my name through their dreams, which they tell every man to his neighbor: as their fathers forgot my name for Baal.
28. The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream: and he that hath my word, let him speak my word with truth: what hath the chaff to do with the wheat, saith the Lord?
29. Are not my words as a fire, saith the Lord: and as a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?