9. Here is what the Lord says concerning the false prophets:My heart and my mind are deeply disturbed.I tremble all over.I am like a drunk person,like a person who has had too much wine,because of the way the Lordand his holy word are being mistreated.
10. For the land is full of people unfaithful to him.They live wicked lives and they misuse their power.So the land is dried up because it is under his curse.The pastures in the wilderness are withered.
11. Moreover, the Lord says,“Both the prophets and priests are godless.I have even found them doing evil in my temple!
12. So the paths they follow will be dark and slippery.They will stumble and fall headlong.For I will bring disaster on them.A day of reckoning is coming for them.”The Lord affirms it!
13. The Lord says, “I saw the prophets of Samariadoing something that was disgusting.They prophesied in the name of the god Baaland led my people Israel astray.
14. But I see the prophets of Jerusalemdoing something just as shocking.They are unfaithful to me and continually prophesy lies.So they give encouragement to people who are doing evil,with the result that they do not stop their evildoing.I consider all of them as bad as the people of Sodom,and the citizens of Jerusalem as bad as the people of Gomorrah.
15. So then I, the Lord who rules over all, have something to say concerning the prophets of Jerusalem: ‘I will make these prophets eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment. For the prophets of Jerusalem are the reasonthat ungodliness has spread throughout the land.’”
16. The Lord who rules over all says to the people of Jerusalem:“Do not listen to whatthose prophets are saying to you.They are filling you with false hopes.They are reporting visions of their own imaginations,not something the Lord has given them to say.
17. They continually say to those who reject what the Lord has said,‘Things will go well for you!’They say to all those who follow the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts,‘Nothing bad will happen to you!’
18. Yet which of them has ever stood in the Lord’s inner circleso they could see and hear what he has to say?Which of them have ever paid attention or listened to what he has said?
19. But just watch! The wrath of the Lordwill come like a storm!Like a raging storm it will rage down on the heads of those who are wicked.
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.