27. By the dreams they tell each other, they plan to make my people forget my name, just as their ancestors forgot my name for Baal.
28. Let the prophets who have dreams tell their dreams; let those who have my word speak my word truthfully!What has straw to do with wheat?—oracle of the Lord.
29. Is not my word like fire—oracle of the Lord—like a hammer shattering rock?
30. Therefore I am against the prophets—oracle of the Lord—those who steal my words from each other.
31. Yes, I am against the prophets—oracle of the Lord—those who compose their own speeches and call them oracles.
32. Yes, I am against the prophets who tell lying dreams—oracle of the Lord—those who lead my people astray by recounting their reckless lies. It was not I who sent them or commanded them; they do this people no good at all—oracle of the Lord.
33. And when this people or a prophet or a priest asks you, “What is the burden of the Lord?” you shall answer, “You are the burden, and I cast you off”—oracle of the Lord.
34. If a prophet or a priest or anyone else mentions “the burden of the Lord,” I will punish that man and his household.
35. Thus you shall ask, when speaking to one another, “What answer did the Lord give?” or “What did the Lord say?”
36. But “the burden of the Lord” you shall mention no more. For each of you, your own word becomes the burden so that you pervert the words of the living God, the Lord of hosts, our God.
37. Thus shall you ask the prophet, “What answer did the Lord give?” or “What did the Lord say?”