Jeremiah 23:25-39

25“I have 1heard what the prophets have said who 2prophesy falsely in My name, saying, ‘I had a 3dream, I had a dream!’ 26How long? Is there anything in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy falsehood, even these prophets of the 4deception of their own heart, 27who intend to 5make My people forget My name by their dreams which they relate to one another, just as their fathers 6forgot My name because of Baal? 28The prophet who has a dream may relate his dream, but let him who has 7My word speak My word in truth. 8What does straw have in common with grain?” declares the Lord. 29“Is not My word like 9fire?” declares the Lord, “and like a 10hammer which shatters a rock? 30Therefore behold, 11I am against the prophets,” declares the Lord, “who steal My words from each other. 31Behold, I am against the prophets,” declares the Lord, “who use their tongues and declare, ‘The Lord declares.’ 32Behold, I am against those who have prophesied 12false dreams,” declares the Lord, “and related them and led My people astray by their falsehoods and 13reckless boasting; yet 14I did not send them or command them, nor do they 15furnish this people the slightest benefit,” declares the Lord.

33“Now when this people or the prophet or a priest asks you saying, ‘What is the 1617oracle of the Lord?’ then you shall say to them, ‘What 18oracle?’ The Lord declares, ‘I will 19abandon you.’ 34Then as for the prophet or the priest or the people who say, ‘The 20oracle of the Lord,’ I will bring punishment upon that man and his household. 35Thus will each of you say to his neighbor and to his brother, ‘21What has the Lord answered?’ or, ‘What has the Lord spoken?’ 36For you will no longer remember the oracle of the Lord, because every man’s own word will become the oracle, and you have 22perverted the words of the 23living God, the Lord of hosts, our God. 37Thus you will say to that prophet, ‘What has the Lord answered you?’ and, ‘What has the Lord spoken?’ 38For if you say, ‘The oracle of the Lord!’ surely thus says the Lord, ‘Because you said this word, “The oracle of the Lord!” I have also sent to you, saying, “You shall not say, ‘The oracle of the Lord!’”’ 39Therefore behold, 24I will surely forget you and cast you away from My presence, along with the city which I gave you and your fathers.