15. So here’s the Message to the prophets from God-of-the-Angel-Armies:“I’ll cook them a supper of maggoty meatwith after-dinner drinks of strychnine.The Jerusalem prophets are behind all this.They’re the cause of the godlessness polluting this country.”
16-17. A Message from God-of-the-Angel-Armies:“Don’t listen to the sermons of the prophets.It’s all hot air. Lies, lies, and more lies.They make it all up.Not a word they speak comes from me.They preach their ‘Everything Will Turn Out Fine’ sermonto congregations with no taste for God,Their ‘Nothing Bad Will Ever Happen to You’ sermonto people who are set in their own ways.
18-20. “Have any of these prophets bothered to meet with me, the true God?bothered to take in what I have to say?listened to and then lived out my Word?Look out! God’s hurricane will be let loose—my hurricane blast,Spinning the heads of the wicked like tops!God’s raging anger won’t let upUntil I’ve made a clean sweep,completing the job I began.When the job’s done,you’ll see that it’s been well done.