“Have you not seen a vain vision, and have you not spoken a lying divination? In that you say, ‘the oracle of Yahweh', in spite of the fact that I have not spoken?”
Whatever methods they used, even if it was just hopeful aspiration, they stand condemned. For although they claimed ‘the oracle of Yahweh' they did not in fact produce a word from Yahweh. Whoever spoke through them it was not Yahweh, for they spoke lies.