For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.
Neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed. The Latin adage saith, 'The people wish to be deceived, so let them be deceived.' Not mere credulity misleads men, but their own perverse "love of darkness rather than light." It was not priests who originated priestcraft, but the people's own morbid appetite to be deceived; e.g., Aaron and the golden calf (Exodus 32:1-4). So the Jews caused or made the prophets to tell them encouraging dreams (Jeremiah 23:25-26; Ecclesiastes 5:7; Zechariah 10:2; John 3:19-21).