20 What use to me is frankincense from Sheba(A)
or sweet cane(B) from a distant land?
Your burnt offerings are not acceptable;
your sacrifices do not please me.(C)
21 Therefore, this is what the Lord says:
I am going to place stumbling blocks before these people;
fathers and sons together will stumble over them;(D)
friends and neighbors will also perish.

A Cruel Nation from the North

22 This is what the Lord says:

Look,(E) an army is coming from a northern land;(F)
a great nation will be stirred up
from the remote regions of the earth.(G)

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