20. The fury of the Lord will not return until it succeeds, and until it completes the plan of his heart. In the last days, you will understand this counsel.
21. "I did not send these prophets, yet they hurry forward. I was not speaking to them, yet they were prophesying.
22. If they had stood in my counsel, and if I had made my words known to my people, certainly I would have turned them away from their evil ways and from their most wicked plans.
23. Do you not realize that I am a God close by, says the Lord, and not a God far away?
24. If a man is hidden in concealed places, do I not see him, says the Lord? Do I not fill up heaven and earth, says the Lord?
25. I have heard what the prophets have said, prophesying falsehoods in my name, and also saying: 'I have dreamed! I have dreamed!'
26. How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who predict what is false, and who prophesy deceptions from their own heart?
27. They want to cause my people to forget my name, by means of their dreams, which each of them describes to his neighbor, just as their fathers forgot my name for the sake of Baal.
28. The prophet who has had a dream, let him describe the dream. And he who receives my word, let him speak my word in truth. For what has the chaff to do with the wheat, says the Lord?
29. Are not my words like a fire, says the Lord, and like a hammer crushing rock?
30. Therefore, behold: I am against the prophets, says the Lord, who steal my words, each one from his neighbor.
31. Behold, I am against the prophets, says the Lord, who take up their tongues and say: 'The Lord says it.'
32. Behold, I am against the prophets, who dream what is false, says the Lord; who explain and so seduce my people with their falsehoods and with their miracles, though I did not send them, nor did I command them. They have offer nothing beneficial to this people, says the Lord.
33. Therefore, if this people, or a prophet, or a priest questions you, saying, 'What is the burden of the Lord?' you shall say to them, 'You are the burden. And certainly I will cast you away, says the Lord.'
34. And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people who say, 'The burden of the Lord!' I will visit upon that man and upon his house.