29. My message is like a fire, and like a hammer that breaks rocks in pieces.
30. I am against those prophets who take each other's words and proclaim them as my message.
31. I am also against those prophets who speak their own words and claim they came from me.
32. Listen to what I, the Lord, say! I am against the prophets who tell their dreams that are full of lies. They tell these dreams and lead my people astray with their lies and their boasting. I did not send them or order them to go, and they are of no help at all to the people. I, the Lord, have spoken.”
33. The Lord said to me, “Jeremiah, when one of my people or a prophet or a priest asks you, ‘What is the Lord's message?’ you are to tell him, ‘You are a burden to the Lord, and he is going to get rid of you.’
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?’