“And 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.”
The command about how to respond when people or prophets ask "what is the burden of the LORD"—the pun on "burden" (massa in Hebrew, meaning both prophecy and burden/weight)—suggests that the inquiry is itself somewhat mocking. The response that the burden is abandonment represents the ironic twist: people seeking prophecy will receive judgment. The verse shows how language itself becomes a site of judgment.
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