18. For who has stood in the counsel of the Lord,And has perceived and heard His word?Who has marked His word and heard it?
19. Behold, a whirlwind of the Lord has gone forth in fury—A violent whirlwind!It will fall violently on the head of the wicked.
20. The anger of the Lord will not turn backUntil He has executed and performed the thoughts of His heart.In the latter days you will understand it perfectly.
21. “I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran.I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
22. But if they had stood in My counsel,And had caused My people to hear My words,Then they would have turned them from their evil wayAnd from the evil of their doings.
23. “Am I a God near at hand,” says the Lord,“And not a God afar off?
24. Can anyone hide himself in secret places,So I shall not see him?” says the Lord;“Do I not fill heaven and earth?” says the Lord.
25. “I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in My name, saying, ‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed!’
26. How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? Indeed they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart,
27. who try to make My people forget My name by their dreams which everyone tells his neighbor, as their fathers forgot My name for Baal.
28. “The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream;And he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully.What is the chaff to the wheat?” says the Lord.
29. “Is not My word like a fire?” says the Lord,“And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
30. “Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” says the Lord, “who steal My words every one from his neighbor.
31. Behold, I am against the prophets,” says the Lord, “who use their tongues and say, ‘He says.’