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, these prophets of the 4deceitfulness of their own heart, 27who intend to 5make My people forget My name by their dreams which they report to one another, just as their fathers 6forgot My name because of Baal? 28The prophet who has a dream may report his dream, but let him who has 7My word speak My word truthfully. 8What does straw have in common with grain?” declares the Lord. 29“Is My word not 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 12use their tongues and declare, ‘The Lord declares!’ 32Behold, I am against those who have prophesied 13false dreams,” declares the Lord, “and reported them and led My people astray by their lies and 14reckless boasting; yet 15I did not send them nor command them, nor do they 16provide 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 1718pronouncement of the Lord?’ then you shall say to them, ‘What 19pronouncement?’ The Lord declares, ‘I will 20abandon you.’ 34Then as for the prophet or the priest or the people who say, ‘The 21pronouncement of the Lord,’ I will bring punishment upon that person and his household. 35This is what each one of you will say to his neighbor and to his brother: ‘22What has the Lord answered?’ or, ‘What has the Lord spoken?’ 36For you will no longer remember the pronouncement of the Lord, because every person’s own word will become the pronouncement, and you have 23perverted the words of the 24living God, the Lord of armies, our God. 37This is what you will say to that prophet: ‘What has the Lord answered you?’ and, ‘What has the Lord spoken?’ 38And if you say, ‘The pronouncement of the Lord!’ for that reason the Lord says this: ‘Because you said this word, “The pronouncement of the Lord!” I have also sent word to you, saying, “You shall not say, ‘The pronouncement of the Lord!’”’ 39Therefore behold, 25I will certainly forget you and thrust you away from My presence, along with the city which I gave you and your fathers.