| 1 | "Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!" says the LORD. |
| 2 | Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who care for my people: "You have scattered my flock, and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for your evil doings, says the LORD. |
| 11 | "Both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in my house I have found their wickedness, says the LORD. |
| 14 | But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from his wickedness; all of them have become like Sodom to me, and its inhabitants like Gomor'rah." |
| 15 | Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: "Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and give them poisoned water to drink; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone forth into all the land." |
| 16 | Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with vain hopes; they speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD. |
| 21 | "I did not send the prophets, yet they ran; I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied. |
| 25 | I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in my name, saying, `I have dreamed, I have dreamed!' |
| 26 | How long shall there be lies in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, and who prophesy the deceit of their own heart, |
| 27 | who think to make my people forget my name by their dreams which they tell one another, even as their fathers forgot my name for Ba'al? |
| 28 | Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream, but let him who has my word speak my word faithfully. What has straw in common with wheat? says the LORD. |
| 29 | Is not my word like fire, says the LORD, and like a hammer which breaks the rock in pieces? |
| 30 | Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, who steal my words from one another. |
| 31 | Behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, who use their tongues and say, `Says the LORD.' |
| 32 | Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says the LORD, and who tell them and lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when I did not send them or charge them; so they do not profit this people at all, says the LORD. |
| 33 | "When one of this people, or a prophet, or a priest asks you, `What is the burden of the LORD?' you shall say to them, `You are the burden, and I will cast you off, says the LORD.' |
| 34 | And as for the prophet, priest, or one of the people who says, `The burden of the LORD,' I will punish that man and his household. |
| 35 | Thus shall you say, every one to his neighbor and every one to his brother, `What has the LORD answered?' or `What has the LORD spoken?' |
| 36 | But `the burden of the LORD' you shall mention no more, for the burden is every man's own word, and you pervert the words of the living God, the LORD of hosts, our God. |
| 37 | Thus you shall say to the prophet, `What has the LORD answered you?' or `What has the LORD spoken?' |
| 38 | But if you say, `The burden of the LORD,' thus says the LORD, `Because you have said these words, "The burden of the LORD," when I sent to you, saying, "You shall not say, `The burden of the LORD,'" |
| 39 | therefore, behold, I will surely lift you up and cast you away from my presence, you and the city which I gave to you and your fathers. |