[23:33] The Lord said to me, “Jeremiah, when one of my people or a prophet or a priest asks you, ‘What is the Lord's message?’ you are to say, ‘You are a burden to the Lord, and he is going to get rid of you.’
[23:34] If any of my people or a prophet or a priest even uses the words ‘the Lord's burden,’ I will punish them and their families.
[23:35] Instead, each one of them should ask their friends and their relatives, ‘What answer has the Lord given? What has the Lord said?’
[23:36] So they must no longer use the words ‘the Lord's burden,’ because if any of them do, I will make my message a real burden to them. The people have perverted the words of their God, the living God, the Lord Almighty.
[23:37] Jeremiah, ask the prophets, ‘What answer did the Lord give you? What did the Lord say?’
[23:38] And if they disobey my command and use the words ‘the Lord's burden,’ then tell them that
[23:39] I will certainly pick them up and throw them far away from me, both them and the city that I gave to them and their ancestors.
[23:40] I will bring on them everlasting shame and disgrace that will never be forgotten.”