18. I said, “None of these prophets has ever known the Lord's secret thoughts. None of them has ever heard or understood his message, or ever listened or paid attention to what he said.
19. His anger is a storm, a furious wind that will rage over the heads of the wicked,
20. and it will not end until he has done everything he intends to do. In days to come his people will understand this clearly.”
21. The Lord said, “I did not send these prophets, but even so they went. I did not give them any message, but still they spoke in my name.
22. If they had known my secret thoughts, then they could have proclaimed my message to my people and could have made them give up the evil lives they live and the wicked things they do.
23. “I am a God who is everywhere and not in one place only.
24. No one can hide where I cannot see him. Do you not know that I am everywhere in heaven and on earth?
25. I know what those prophets have said who speak lies in my name and claim that I have given them my messages in their dreams.
26. How much longer will those prophets mislead my people with the lies they have invented?
27. They think that the dreams they tell will make my people forget me, just as their ancestors forgot me and turned to Baal.