18. For who has stood in the counsel of יהוה, and has seen and heard His word? Who has listened to His word and obeyed it?
19. See, a storm of יהוה shall go forth in a rage, a whirling storm! It whirls on the head of the wrong.
20. The displeasure of יהוה shall not turn back until He has done and established the purposes of His heart. In the latter days you shall understand it perfectly.
21. “I did not send these prophets, yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
22. “But if they had stood in My counsel, then they would have let My people hear My Words, and they would have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their deeds.
23. “Am I an Elohim close by,” declares יהוה, “and not an Elohim afar off?
24. “If anyone is hidden in secret places, would I not see him?” declares יהוה. “Do I not fill the heavens and earth?” declares יהוה.
25. “I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy falsehood in My Name, saying, ‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed!’
26. “Till when shall it be in the heart of the prophets? – the prophets of falsehood and prophets of the deceit of their own heart,
27. who try to make My people forget My Name by their dreams which everyone relates to his neighbour, as their fathers forgot My Name for Ba‛al.
28. “The prophet who has a dream, let him relate the dream, and he who has My Word, let him speak My Word in truth. What is the chaff to the wheat?” declares יהוה.
29. “Is not My Word like a fire?” declares יהוה, “and like a hammer that shatters a rock?
30. “Therefore see, I am against the prophets,” declares יהוה, “who steal My Words every one from his neighbour.
31. “See, I am against the prophets,” declares יהוה, “who use their tongues and say, ‘He declares.’