^{33 Ref} When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, What is the burden of Yahweh? then shall you tell them, What burden! I will cast you off, says Yahweh.

^{34 Ref} As for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, who shall say, The burden of Yahweh, I will even punish that man and his house.

^{35 Ref} Thus shall you say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, What has Yahweh answered? and, What has Yahweh spoken?

^{36 Ref} The burden of Yahweh shall you mention no more: for every man's own word shall be his burden; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Hosts our God.

³⁷ Thus shall you say to the prophet, What has Yahweh answered you? and, What has Yahweh spoken?

^{38 Ref} But if you say, The burden of Yahweh; therefore thus says Yahweh: Because you say this word, The burden of Yahweh, and I have sent to you, saying, You shall not say, The burden of Yahweh;

^{39 Ref} therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence:

^{40 Ref} and I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.