22. But if they had stood in my council,then they would have caused my people to hear my words,and would have turned them from their evil way,and from the evil of their doings.
23. “Am I a God at hand,” says the Lord,“and not a God afar off?
24. Can anyone hide himself in secret placesso that I can’t see him?” says the Lord.“Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says the Lord.
25. “I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’
26. How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?
27. They intend to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they each tell his neighbour, as their fathers forgot my name because of Baal.
28. The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?” says the Lord.
29. “Isn’t my word like fire?” says the Lord; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
30. “Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” says the Lord, “who each steal my words from his neighbour.
31. Behold, I am against the prophets,” says the Lord, “who use their tongues, and say, ‘He says.’
32. Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” says the Lord, “who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them or command them. They don’t profit this people at all,” says the Lord.
33. “When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, asks you, saying, ‘What is the message from the Lord?’ Then you shall tell them, ‘“What message? I will cast you off,” says the Lord.’