27. which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers forgat 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 faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? saith the Lord.
29. Is not my word like as fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
30. Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.
31. Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.
32. Behold, I am against them that prophesy lying dreams, saith the Lord, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I sent them not, nor commanded them; neither shall they profit this people at all, saith the Lord.
33. And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the Lord? then shalt thou say unto them, What burden! I will cast you off, 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 even punish that man and his house.
35. Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the Lord answered? and, What hath the Lord spoken?
36. And the burden of the Lord shall ye mention no more: for every man's own word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the Lord of hosts our God.
37. Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the Lord answered thee? and, What hath the Lord spoken?
38. But if ye say, The burden of the Lord; therefore thus saith the Lord: Because ye say this word, The burden of the Lord, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the Lord;
39. therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave unto you and to your fathers, away from my presence:
40. and I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame which shall not be forgotten.