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20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba,
and the sweet cane from a far country?
your burnt offerings are not acceptable,
nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
21 Therefore thus saith the Lord,
Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people,
and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them;
the neighbour and his friend shall perish.

22 Thus saith the Lord,
Behold, a people cometh from the north country,
and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.

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