The LORD asked me, "Jeremiah, what do you see?" I answered, "A branch of an almond tree."

The LORD sent me to the gate of the Temple where the people of Judah went in to worship. He told me to stand there and announce what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, had to say to them: "Change the way you are living and the things you are doing, and I will let you go on living here.

The prophet who has had a dream should say it is only a dream, but the prophet who has heard my message should proclaim that message faithfully. What good is straw compared with wheat?

The LORD spoke to me.

In the past God spoke to our ancestors many times and in many ways through the prophets,

For no prophetic message ever came just from the human will, but people were under the control of the Holy Spirit as they spoke the message that came from God.