29. Are not my words as a fire, saith the Lord: and as a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
30. Therefore behold I am against the prophets, saith the Lord: who steal my words every one from his neighbor.
31. Behold I am against the prophets, saith the Lord: who use their tongues, and say: The Lord saith it.
32. Behold I am against the prophets that have lying dreams, saith the Lord: and tell them, and cause my people to err by their lying, and by their wonders: when I sent them not, nor commanded them, who have not profited this people at all, saith the Lord.
33. If therefore this people, or the prophet, or the priest shall ask thee, saying: What is the burden of the Lord? thou shalt say to them: You are the burden: for I will cast you away, saith the Lord.
34. And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people that shall say: The burden of the Lord: I will visit upon that man, and upon his house.
35. Thus shall you say every one to his neighbor, and to his brother: What hath the Lord answered? and what hath the Lord spoken?
36. And the burden of the Lord shall be mentioned no more, for every man's word shall be his burden: for you have perverted the words of the living God, of the Lord of hosts our God.
37. Thus shalt thou say to the prophet: What hath the Lord answered thee? and what hath the Lord spoken?
38. But if you shall say: The burden of the Lord: therefore thus saith the Lord: Because you have said this word: The burden of the Lord: and I have sent to you saying: Say not, Tne burden of the Lord:
39. Therefore behold I will take you away carrying you, and will forsake you, and the city which I gave to you, and to your fathers, out of my presence.
40. And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame which shall never be forgotten.