20. The anger of the Lord will not turn backuntil he has fully carried out his intended purposes.In days to comeyou people will come to understand this clearly.
21. I did not send those prophets.Yet they were in a hurry to give their message.I did not tell them anything.Yet they prophesied anyway.
22. But if they had stood in my inner circle,they would have proclaimed my message to my people.They would have caused my people to turn from their wicked waysand stop doing the evil things they are doing.
23. Do you people think that I am some local deityand not the transcendent God?” the Lord asks.
24. “Do you really think anyone can hide himselfwhere I cannot see him?” the Lord asks.“Do you not know that I am everywhere?” the Lord asks.
25. The Lord says, “I have heard what those prophets who are prophesying lies in my name are saying. They are saying, ‘I have had a dream! I have had a dream!’
26. Those prophets are just prophesying lies. They are prophesying the delusions of their own minds.
27. How long will they go on plotting to make my people forget who I am through the dreams they tell one another? That is just as bad as what their ancestors did when they forgot who I am by worshiping the god Baal.
28. Let the prophet who has had a dream go ahead and tell his dream. Let the person who has received my message report that message faithfully. What is like straw cannot compare to what is like grain! I, the Lord, affirm it!
29. My message is like a fire that purges dross! It is like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces! I, the Lord, so affirm it!
30. So I, the Lord, affirm that I am opposed to those prophets who steal messages from one another that they claim are from me.