Jeremiah 23:33–40

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

³⁴“Then as for the prophet or the priest or the people who say, ‘The ^aoracle of the Lord,’ 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 the Lord answered?’ or, ‘What has the Lord spoken?’

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

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

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

³⁹“Therefore behold, ^aI will surely forget you and cast you away from My presence, along with the city which I gave you and your fathers.

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