Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 23:35
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 33 and following) So if this people, or a prophet, or a priest asks you, saying: what is the burden of God (or what is the assumption of the Lord)? you shall say to them: You are the burden (or assumption). For I will cast (or hurl) you away, says the Lord. And the prophet and the priest and the people, who say…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
35Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbor, and every one to his brother, What has the Lord answered? and, what has the Lord said?
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In context
33And if this people, or the priest, or the prophet, should ask, What is the burden of the Lord? then thou shalt say to them, Ye are the burden, and I will dash you down, saith the Lord.
34As for the prophet, and the priests, and the people, who shall say, The burden of the Lord, I will even take vengeance on that man, and on his house.
— Jeremiah 23:35 —
36And do ye name no more the burden of the Lord; for his own word shall be a man’s burden.
37But wherefore, say ye, has the Lord our God spoken?