Jeremiah 23
33 “When these people, or a prophet or a priest, ask you, ‘What is the message from the Lord?` say to them, ‘What message? I will forsake you, declares the Lord.` 34 If a prophet or a priest or anyone else claims, ‘This is a message from the Lord,` I will punish them and their household. 35 This is what each of you keeps saying to your friends and other Israelites: ‘What is the Lord`s answer?` or ‘What has the Lord spoken?` 36 But you must not mention ‘a message from the Lord` again, because each one`s word becomes their own message. So you distort the words of the living God, the Lord Almighty, our God. 37 This is what you keep saying to a prophet: ‘What is the Lord`s answer to you?` or ‘What has the Lord spoken?` 38 Although you claim, ‘This is a message from the Lord,` this is what the Lord says: You used the words, ‘This is a message from the Lord,` even though I told you that you must not claim, ‘This is a message from the Lord.` 39 Therefore, I will surely forget you and cast you out of my presence along with the city I gave to you and your ancestors. 40 I will bring on you everlasting disgrace—everlasting shame that will not be forgotten.”