12. “Therefore their path will become slippery; they will be banished to darkness and there they will fall. I will bring disaster on them in the year they are punished,” declares the Lord.
13. “Among the prophets of Samaria I saw this repulsive thing: They prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.
14. And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen something horrible: They commit adultery and live a lie. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that not one of them turns from their wickedness. They are all like Sodom to me; the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.”
15. Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says concerning the prophets: “I will make them eat bitter food and drink poisoned water, because from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”
16. This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Do not listen to what the prophets are prophesying to you; they fill you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord.
17. They keep saying to those who despise me, ‘The Lord says: You will have peace.’ And to all who follow the stubbornness of their hearts they say, ‘No harm will come to you.’
18. But which of them has stood in the council of the Lord to see or to hear his word? Who has listened and heard his word?
19. See, the storm of the Lord will burst out in wrath, a whirlwind swirling down on the heads of the wicked.
20. The anger of the Lord will not turn back until he fully accomplishes the purposes of his heart. In days to come you will understand it clearly.
21. I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophesied.
22. But if they had stood in my council, they would have proclaimed my words to my people and would have turned them from their evil ways and from their evil deeds.
23. “Am I only a God nearby,” declares the Lord, “and not a God far away?
24. Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?” declares the Lord. “Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the Lord.
25. “I have heard what the prophets say who prophesy lies in my name. They say, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’
26. How long will this continue in the hearts of these lying prophets, who prophesy the delusions of their own minds?
27. They think the dreams they tell one another will make my people forget my name, just as their ancestors forgot my name through Baal worship.