26. How long shall there be lies in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, and who prophesy the deceit of their own heart,
27. who think to make my people forget my name by their dreams that they tell one another, even as their fathers forgot my name for Baal?
28. Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream, but let him who has my word speak my word faithfully. What has straw in common with wheat? declares the Lord.
29. Is not my word like fire, declares the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
30. Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, declares the Lord, who steal my words from one another.
31. Behold, I am against the prophets, declares the Lord, who use their tongues and declare, ‘declares the Lord.’
32. Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, declares the Lord, and who tell them and lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when I did not send them or charge them. So they do not profit this people at all, declares the Lord.
33. “When one of this people, or a prophet or a priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the Lord?’ you shall say to them, ‘You are the burden, and I will cast you off, declares the Lord.’
34. And as for the prophet, priest, or one of the people who says, ‘The burden of the Lord,’ I will punish that man and his household.
35. Thus shall you say, every one to his neighbor and every one to his brother, ‘What has the Lord answered?’ or ‘What has the Lord spoken?’
36. But ‘the burden of the Lord’ you shall mention no more, for the burden is every man’s own word, and you pervert the words of the living God, the Lord of hosts, our God.