Jeremiah 23:33–40

³³“Now when this people or the prophet or a priest asks you, saying, ‘What is the ^1aoracle of Yahweh?’ then you shall say to them, ‘What oracle?’ Yahweh declares, ‘I will ^babandon you.’

³⁴“Then as for the prophet or the priest or the people who say, ‘The ^aoracle of Yahweh,’ I will bring punishment upon that man and his household.

³⁵“Thus will each of you say to his neighbor and to his brother, ‘^aWhat has Yahweh answered?’ or, ‘What has Yahweh spoken?’

³⁶“For you will no longer remember the oracle of Yahweh because every man’s own word will become the oracle, and you have ^aperverted the words of the ^bliving God, Yahweh of hosts, our God.

³⁷“Thus you will say to that prophet, ‘What has Yahweh answered you?’ and, ‘What has Yahweh spoken?’

³⁸“For if you all say, ‘The oracle of Yahweh!’ surely thus says Yahweh, ‘Because you said this word, “The oracle of Yahweh!” I have also sent to you, saying, “You shall not say, ‘The oracle of Yahweh!’”’

³⁹“Therefore behold, ^aI will surely forget you and abandon you, along with the city which I gave you and your fathers, so that you are out of My presence.

⁴⁰“I will put an everlasting ^areproach on you and an everlasting humiliation which will not be forgotten.”