19 Behold, a awhirlwind of the Lord has gone forth in fury— A violent whirlwind! It will fall violently on the head of the wicked.
20 The aanger of the Lord will not turn back Until He has executed and performed the thoughts of His heart. bIn the latter days you will understand it perfectly.
21 “Ia have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
22 But if they had stood in My counsel, And had caused My people to hear My words, Then they would have aturned them from their evil way And from the evil of their doings.
23 “Am I a God near at hand,” says the Lord, “And not a God afar off?
24 Can anyone ahide himself in secret places, So I shall not see him?” says the Lord; b“Do I not fill heaven and earth?” says the Lord.
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 will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? Indeed theyare prophets of the deceit of their own heart,
27 who try to make My people forget My name by their dreams which everyone tells his neighbor, aas their fathers forgot My name for Baal.
28 “The 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 chaff to the wheat?” says the Lord.
29 “Is not My word like a afire?” says the Lord, “And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
30 “Therefore behold, aI am against the prophets,” says the Lord, “who steal My words every one from his neighbor.
31 Behold, I amaagainst the prophets,” says the Lord, “who use their tongues and say, ‘He says.’
32 Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams,” says the Lord, “and tell them, and cause My people to err by their alies and by btheir recklessness. Yet I did not send them or command them; therefore they shall not cprofit this people at all,” says the Lord.
33 “So when these people or the prophet or the priest ask you, saying, ‘What is athe oracle of the Lord?’ you shall then say to them,2 ‘What oracle?’ I will even forsake you,” says the Lord.
34 “And asfor the prophet and the priest and the people who say, ‘The1 oracle of the Lord!’ I will even punish that man and his house.
I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran - Not to save souls, but to profit themselves.
I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied - They never received the word at my mouth; yet they went, publishing their own deceits, and pretending them to be revelations from God. The churches which have legal emoluments are ever in danger of being overrun and ruined by worldly and self-interested priests.
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