15. Therefore thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot concerning the prophets: “I myself will feed them wormwood and make them drink poisoned water. For from the prophets of Jerusalem pollution has spread into all the land.”
16. Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: “Do not listen to the words of prophets who are prophesying to you. They are leading you into illusion, speaking a vision of their own heart and not out of the mouth of Adonai.
17. They keep saying to those who despise Me, ‘Adonai has said, you will have shalom.’ To everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say: ‘No evil will come on you.’”
18. For who has stood in the council of Adonai, that he should see and hear His word? Who has heard to His word and obeyed?
19. Look, a storm of Adonai goes out in fury, yes, a whirling tempest will swirl down on the head of the wicked.
20. The anger of Adonai will not turn until He has executed and fulfilled the purposes of His heart. In the last days you will discern it clearly.
21. “I did not send those prophets, yet they ran. I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.
22. If they have stood in My council, then they would have announced My words to My people, and turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their deeds.”
23. “Am I God only when near” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “and not God when far off?
24. Can anyone hide himself in places so secret that I will not see him? Do I not fill heaven and earth?” It is a declaration of Adonai.
25. “I have heard what the prophets said, who prophesy lies in My Name, saying: ‘I had a dream, I had a dream!’
26. How long will this continue? Is there anything in the heart of such prophets prophesying lies? These prophets have deception in their heart.
27. Through their dreams that they each tell to his companion, that intend to make My people forget My Name—just as their fathers forgot My Name because of Baal.
28. “The prophet who has a dream may recount a dream, but let the one who has My word speak My word in truth. For what is straw compared with wheat?” It is a declaration of Adonai.
29. “Is not My word like fire?” says Adonai, “or like a hammer that shatters rock?
30. “Therefore here I am against the prophets”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“who steal My words from each other.
31. Indeed, I am against the prophets”, declares Adonai, “who use their tongues to utter a prophecy, ‘It is a declaration!’