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.’
32. “See, I am against those who prophesy false dreams,” declares יהוה, “and relate them, and lead My people astray by their falsehoods and by their reckless boasting. But I Myself did not send them nor have I commanded them. And they do not profit this people at all,” declares יהוה.
33. “And when these people or the prophet or the priest ask you, saying, ‘What is the message of יהוה?’ then you shall say to them, ‘What message?’ I shall forsake you,” declares יהוה.
34. “As for the prophet and the priest and the people who say, ‘The message of יהוה,’ I shall punish that man and his house.