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.
35. “This is what each one says to his neighbour, and each one to his brother, ‘What has יהוה answered?’ and, ‘What has יהוה spoken?’
36. “But the message of יהוה you no longer remember! For every man’s message is his own word, for you have changed the Words of the living Elohim, יהוה of hosts, our Elohim!
37. “This is what you say to the prophet, ‘What has יהוה answered you?’ and, ‘What has יהוה spoken?’