28. “The prophet who has a dream may recount a dream, but let the one who has My word speak My word in truth. For what is straw compared with wheat?” It is a declaration of Adonai.
29. “Is not My word like fire?” says Adonai, “or like a hammer that shatters rock?
30. “Therefore here I am against the prophets”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“who steal My words from each other.
31. Indeed, I am against the prophets”, declares Adonai, “who use their tongues to utter a prophecy, ‘It is a declaration!’
32. Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” declares Adonai, “and tell them, and so lead My people astray with their lies and with their reckless boasts. Yet I never sent them or commanded them. Nor do they benefit this people at all.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
33. “Now when this people or a prophet or a kohen is asking you: ‘What is the burden of Adonai?’ then you are to say to them, ‘What burden? I will cast you off!’” It is a declaration of Adonai.
34. “As for the prophet or kohen or people who keep saying, ‘The burden of Adonai!’—I will punish that man and his household.
35. Thus each of you may say to his companion and each one to his brother, ‘What has Adonai answered?’ or ‘What has Adonai spoken?’
36. But you should no longer remember ‘the burden of Adonai’—for to each one, his own word is becoming ‘the burden’! So you have perverted the words of the living God, of Adonai-Tzva’ot our God.
37. “So you are to say to such a prophet, ‘What has Adonai answered you?’ and ‘What has Adonai spoken?’
38. But if you say, ‘The burden of Adonai,’” then surely Adonai says, “because you keep saying this word: ‘The burden of Adonai,’ when I sent this word to you, you are not to say ‘The burden of Adonai’—
39. therefore, I will surely forget you when I will cast you off, along with the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from My presence.
40. Then I will bring everlasting disgrace on you and everlasting shame that will not be forgotten.”