But the LORD replied, "The prophets are telling lies in my name; I did not send them, nor did I give them any orders or speak one word to them. The visions they talk about have not come from me; their predictions are worthless things that they have imagined.

I, the LORD, tell you what I am going to do to those prophets whom I did not send but who speak in my name and say war and starvation will not strike this land---I will kill them in war and by starvation.

"So then, I, the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, will turn against you and destroy all Judah.

I, the LORD, will give you proof that I will punish you in this place and that my promise to bring destruction on you will come true.

If any of you give one of your children to Molech and make my sacred Tent unclean and disgrace my holy name, I will turn against you and will no longer consider you my people.

I will turn against you, so that you will be defeated, and those who hate you will rule over you; you will be so terrified that you will run when no one is chasing you.

But if any prophet dares to speak a message in my name when I did not command him to do so, he must die for it, and so must any prophet who speaks in the name of other gods.'

The LORD will not forgive such a man. Instead, the LORD's burning anger will flame up against him, and all the disasters written in this book will fall on him until the LORD has destroyed him completely.

but he opposes those who do evil, so that when they die, they are soon forgotten.

So the Sovereign LORD says to them, "Your words are false, and your visions are lies. I am against you.

Now this is what the Sovereign LORD says: "I hate the wristbands that you use in your attempt to control life and death. I will rip them off your arms and set free the people that you were controlling.

and will punish them. They have escaped one fire, but now fire will burn them up. When I punish them, you will know that I am the LORD.

For the Lord watches over the righteous and listens to their prayers; but he opposes those who do evil."