34. If any of my people or a prophet or a priest even uses the words ‘the Lord's burden’, I will punish them and their families.
35. Instead, they should each ask their friends and relatives, ‘What answer has the Lord given? What has the Lord said?’
36. So they must no longer use the words ‘the Lord's burden’, because if anyone does, I will make my message a real burden to him. The people have perverted the words of their God, the living God, the Lord Almighty.
37. Jeremiah, ask the prophets, ‘What answer did the Lord give you? What did the Lord say?’
38. And if they disobey my command and use the words ‘the Lord's burden’, then tell them that
39. I will certainly pick them up and throw them far away from me, both them and the city that I gave to them and their ancestors.