Jeremiah 23:28–36

²⁸The 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 neighbor.↗

³¹Behold, I am against the prophets,” says the LORD, “who use their tongues, and say, ‘He says.’↗

³²Behold, 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.’↗

³⁴As for the prophet, the priest, and the people, who say, ‘The message from the LORD,’ I will even punish that man and his household.↗

³⁵You will say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, ‘What has the LORD answered?’ and, ‘What has the LORD said?’↗

³⁶You will mention the message from the LORD no more, for every man’s own word has become his message; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of Armies, our God.↗