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20 What do I care about incense from Sh’va
or sweet cane from a distant land?
Your burnt offerings are unacceptable,
your sacrifices don’t please me.”

21 Therefore thus says Adonai:

“I will put obstacles in the way of this people
that they will stumble over —
fathers and sons, neighbors and friends,
all will perish together.”

22 Here is what Adonai says:

“A people is coming from the land of the north,
a great nation will be aroused from the ends of the earth.

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