Inescapable Doom of the False Prophets

23 Am I, saith Jehovah, a God that is nigh,

And not a God afar?

24 Can any man hide, saith Jehovah,

In secret, where I cannot see him?

Do not I fill heaven and earth?

25 I have heard what the prophets say,

That prophesy lies in My name;

"I have dreamed, I have dreamed, I have dreamed."

26 Will the heart of the prophets not turn

That prophesy lies, and that prophesy

Nought but their own heart’s delusions,

27 And think to drive My name

Clean out of the minds of My people

By the dreams that they tell one another,

As erst by the Baal My name

Was driven from the mind of their fathers?

28 The prophet that hath a dream–

Let him declare his dream:

And he that hath My word–

Let him faithfully utter My word.

What hath straw, saith Jehovah, to do with the wheat?

29 Is not My word like a fire,

Like a hammer that shatters the rocks?

30 Mark this, therefore, saith Jehovah, I am against the prophets that steal My words from one another. 31 I am against the prophets who take their tongues and immediately reel off an oracle. 32 I am against the prophets that prophesy living dreams, seducing My people by their lies and their windy boasts. They have not been sent by Me, nor have they any commission from Me, and to this people they bring no sort of gain whatever.