Jeremiah 27

Jeremiah 27 - King James Version

 1In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

 2Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,

 3And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;

 4And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your masters;

 5I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.

 6And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.

 7And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.

 8And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

 9Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:

 10For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.

 11But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.

 12I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.

 13Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

 14Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.

 15For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.

 16Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.

 17Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?

 18But if they be prophets, and if the word of the LORD be with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.

 19For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city.

 20Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;

 21Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem;

 22They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.

Oil Spill Clean Up Will Not Work

The apparent landmark – and admittedly “untested” – new theory currently under construction to try and collect the oil that is gushing out of the damaged well head in the Gulf of Mexico is to place a very large steel container over the top of the well with an inserted hose that is designed to recapture the oil from therein.  Generally speaking, the rhetoric going around is that the British Petroleum Company (BP) plans on “pumping” the oil out of the steel container for transfer into an awaiting tanker; but other rhetoric is suggesting that the oil will be “siphoned” out of the container.

A very important point to make here is that "pumping" and "siphoning" are two totally separate ideals.  A suction pump (including your mouth) can be used to start a siphoning process (also called “priming”), such as with siphoning gasoline out of a car gas tank; but once the cohesion of siphoning is actually completed then the pump is no longer used.

I have to assume that BP is not planning on siphoning the oil out of the container, since the physics of siphoning won’t work in that case.

The process of siphoning to drain a reservoir of liquid is accomplished by way of utilizing a continuous tube that allows liquid to drain from the reservoir through an intermediate point that is higher, or lower, than the reservoir.  In this way, the flow of liquid is being driven only by the difference in so-called “hydrostatic pressure” without any need for pumping.  However, the physics of hydrostatic pressure (also called “hydrostatics”) are the deciding factor here, since the phenomenon of hydrostatic pressure is actually considerate of the – "The Science of Fluids at Rest."

In short, a body of fluid at rest is just what it sounds like, an example of which is the gasoline resting in your car’s gas tank.  Oil that is clearly being forced out of the ground into a reservoir is clearly not a liquid substance that is at rest inside the reservoir, which is why a conversion of hydrostatic pressurization within the tube (or pipe) running to an awaiting tanker on the surface of the water would not be accomplished.

The other consideration is that they (BP) would be attempting to continuously pump the oil out of the tank and into the ship.  

There are two conceivable problems with this “pumping” theory that are based in simple physics:

1)  If the upward force of the suction pump is actually greater than the outward force of oil escaping from the well head, then a vacuum effect will automatically be created inside of the proposed steel container.  At such time (not very long afterward) that enough opposing vacuum force is exerted inside of the steel container, it would actually create a downward exertion of force against the outward pressurized effect of the oil escaping from the well head; and this effect would ultimately choke off the flow of oil out of the well head for as long as the greater opposing vacuum force is being exerted.  In other words, the next thing everybody would know is that oil would suddenly stop coming out of the well.

The simple analogy to this is to place a paper cup over your mouth that creates a seal by fitting the cup securely around your cheeks, your upper lip and chin area and then proceed to inhale.  The vacuum effect is created immediately; and if you inhale hard enough it will cause the walls of the cup to collapse inward, or to implode.

A more precise analogy to this scenario is to picture the same cup over your mouth, but instead with a straw inserted through the bottom of the cup that has water flowing through the straw into the cup receptacle.  Assuming the outward force of the water flow through the straw is at 5 pounds per square inch (psi), but you are alternately exerting an upward suctioning action equivalent to 10 psi, then your greater suctioning action will actually create a vacuum effect not only inside the cup, but also inside the straw, that will stop the flow of water through the straw.  In fact, if you were able to suck hard enough, you would ultimately succeed in collapsing (imploding) the walls of the straw itself.  In this latter illustration, first the walls of the straw would collapse and then the walls of the cup would collapse.

A real-world example here is to first note that I have been employed as a semi-truck driver for the past decade and that I used to drive tanker trucks that were filled with various liquids coming from those very large silo tanks that you see along the freeways at industrial plants (e.g., oil refineries).  The pumps used to transfer liquids from the tanks into the truck are on the semi-truck itself and not on the silo tanks.  When transferring liquids in all cases under this scenario, the truck driver must ensure that he vents the tanker on his vehicle before turning on his truck pump, or it will COLLAPSE THE WALLS of the silo tank.  This is because the silo tanks are pressurized and are not vented.  (So if you’ve ever been driving down the road and seen one of those huge steel tanks in a collapsed – or imploded – condition, the reason it happened is because the truck driver forgot to vent his tanker truck when he started the loading process.) 

The silo tanks are not vented for a very important reason, which is to prevent the displacement of air between the silo holding tank and the hose line running to the tanker truck, which would otherwise result in the pump mechanism of the semi truck to effectively end up “sucking air” and where either little or no flow of liquid would actually occur.  (NOTE: The other important – and perhaps obvious – consideration to make here is that truck drivers cannot offload liquid from a silo holding tank during those times when the silo is being refilled by railroad cars due to the fact that the tanks are not pressurized at the time when they are being refilled.)

2)  On the other hand, if the upward force of the suction pump is actually less than the outward force of escaping oil from the well head, then obviously the steel reservoir is going to fill beyond capacity.  What happens in that case?  Well, assuming that there is no floor (i.e., no bottom) on the dome, then the result is going to be that the oil will simply lift the dome off the ocean floor; and it doesn’t matter if that the dome is said to weigh an estimated 170 tons.  The dome will be lifted off the ocean floor in this case and tossed around, possibly being flipped over on its side, but otherwise clearly illustrating that no means of an effective seal will be accomplished at the base edges of the dome, as it would be designed to rest on the ocean floor.

In theory, the only way this pumping scenario could work is if the pumping mechanism were calibrated to pump the oil out of the dome at precisely the same rate that oil is escaping from the well.  My first assumption is that they (BP) would have no way of knowing how to adjust such a precise calibration, since first of all they are not even sure how much oil is escaping from the well at any given time.  But even if they could accurately adjust the calibration in this way, the other thing they would have to be prepared for is that the pump could never stop pumping at any time or the same above-noted scenario would occur where the reservoir would fill beyond capacity and thus end up being lifted off the ocean floor.

As a final note here, if the former scenario ends up being the case where a level of suction disproportionately greater than the outward flow of oil were to occur, then it is more than a fair bet to assume the greater likelihood where the reservoir would end up becoming imploded, and regardless of the fact that it is constructed of 170 tons of steel and concrete.

My personal suggestion here is that the quickest way to potentially repair and/or plug the leaking oil well head would be to use underwater FANS designed to clear oil away to one side, which would provide visibility of the well head.  With visibility, it may be possible to send manned submarines with robotic arms down to the area where a welding operation could be conducted to seal off the well.

Jeremiah 26

Jeremiah 26 - King James Version

 1In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying,

 2Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD's house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD's house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word:

 3If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.

 4And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

 5To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not hearkened;

 6Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

 7So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.

 8Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.

 9Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.

 10When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king's house unto the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD's house.

 11Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die; for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.

 12Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.

 13Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.

 14As for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you.

 15But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.

 16Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.

 17Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,

 18Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

 19Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.

 20And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.

 21And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt;

 22And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt.

 23And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

 24Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

Jeremiah 25

Jeremiah 25 - King James Version

 1The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;

 2The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,

 3From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.

 4And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.

 5They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:

 6And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.

 7Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.

 8Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words,

 9Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

 10Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.

 11And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

 12And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.

 13And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.

 14For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.

 15For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.

 16And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

 17Then took I the cup at the LORD's hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:

 18To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;

 19Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;

 20And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,

 21Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,

 22And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,

 23Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,

 24And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,

 25And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,

 26And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.

 27Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

 28And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.

 29For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.

 30Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.

 31A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.

 32Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

 33And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.

 34Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.

 35And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.

 36A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture.

 37And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

 38He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.

Jeremiah 24

Jeremiah 24 - King James Version

 1The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

 2One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

 3Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

 4Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

 5Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.

 6For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

 7And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.

 8And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:

 9And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.

 10And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.

Jeremiah 23

Jeremiah 23 - King James Version

 1Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.

 2Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.

 3And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.

 4And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.

 5Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.

 6In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

 7Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

 8But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.

 9Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.

 10For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.

 11For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.

 12Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.

 13And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

 14I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness; they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

 15Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.

 16Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.

 17They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.

 18For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?

 19Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.

 20The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.

 21I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

 22But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

 23Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?

 24Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.

 25I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

 26How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;

 27Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.

 28The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.

 29Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

 30Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.

 31Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.

 32Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.

 33And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.

 34And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house.

 35Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the LORD spoken?

 36And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.

 37Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken?

 38But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith the LORD; Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD;

 39Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence:

 40And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.