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?”
38. But if you ask about “the burden of the Lord,” then thus says the Lord: Because you use this phrase, “the burden of the Lord,” though I forbade you to use it,
39. therefore I will lift you on high and cast you from my presence, you and the city which I gave to you and your ancestors.
40. And I will bring upon you eternal reproach, eternal shame, never to be forgotten.