Jeremiah 23:40

Yahweh would also curse these false prophets with the eventual reproach of the people and their consequent shame forever. People would always remember them as false prophets. This was only fitting since they had made the people forget the Lord (Jeremiah 23:27). The people might forget the Lord, but they would never forget the coming judgment.

"The whole argument comes to us as rather complex, probably because the pun is developed in such a sustained manner. The two senses of massa’, ’prophetic utterance’ and ’burden,’ and the verb nasa’ occur a number of times. The massa’ of Yahweh is that the people are a massa’." [Note: Thompson, p. 506. Harrison, Jeremiah and . . ., pp. 122-23, wrote a helpful contrast between true and false prophets that is suggestive for contemporary life and ministry.]