18. For who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord, and hath seen and heard his word? Who hath considered his word and heard it?
19. Behold the whirlwind of the Lord's indignation shall come forth, and a tempest shall break out and come upon the head of the wicked.
20. The wrath of the Lord shall not return till he execute it, and till he accomplish the thought of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand his counsel.
21. I did not send prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
22. If they stood in my counsel, and had made my words known to my people, I should have turned them from their evil way and from their wicked doings.
23. Am I, think ye, a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off?
24. Shall a man be hid in secret places, and I not see him, saith the Lord? do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord?
25. I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesylies in my name, and say: I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
26. How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, and that prophesy the delusions of their own heart?
27. Who seek to make my people forget my name through their dreams, which they tell every man to his neighbor: as their fathers forgot my name for Baal.
28. The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream: and he that hath my word, let him speak my word with truth: what hath the chaff to do with the wheat, saith the Lord?
29. Are not my words as a fire, saith the Lord: and as a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
30. Therefore behold I am against the prophets, saith the Lord: who steal my words every one from his neighbor.
31. Behold I am against the prophets, saith the Lord: who use their tongues, and say: The Lord saith it.
32. Behold I am against the prophets that have lying dreams, saith the Lord: and tell them, and cause my people to err by their lying, and by their wonders: when I sent them not, nor commanded them, who have not profited this people at all, saith the Lord.
33. If therefore this people, or the prophet, or the priest shall ask thee, saying: What is the burden of the Lord? thou shalt say to them: You are the burden: for I will cast you away, saith the Lord.
34. And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people that shall say: The burden of the Lord: I will visit upon that man, and upon his house.