22. If they had been in a meetingof my council in heaven,they would have toldyou people of Judahto give up your sinsand come back to me.
23. I am everywhere—both near and far,
24. in heaven and on earth.There are no secret placeswhere you can hide from me.
25. These unfaithful prophets claim that I have given them a dream or a vision, and then they tell lies in my name.
26. But everything they say comes from their own twisted minds. How long can this go on?
27. They tell each other their dreams and try to get my people to reject me, just as their ancestors left me and worshipped Baal.
28. Their dreams and my truth are as different as straw and wheat. But when prophets speak for me, they must say only what I have told them.
29. My words are a powerful fire; they are a hammer that shatters rocks.
30-32. These unfaithful prophets claim I give them their dreams, but it isn't true. I didn't choose them to be my prophets, and yet they babble on and on, speaking in my name, while stealing words from each other. And when my people hear these liars, they are led astray instead of being helped. So I warn you that I am now the enemy of these prophets. I, the Lord, have spoken.
33. Jeremiah, when a prophet or a priest or anyone else comes to you and asks, “Does the Lord have news for us?” tell them, “You people are a nuisance to the Lord, and he will get rid of you.”
34. If any of you say, “Here is news from the Lord,” I will punish you and your families, even if you are a prophet or a priest.