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20 To what purpose does incense from Sheba come to Me,
    and the sweet cane from a far country?
Your burnt offerings are not acceptable,
    nor are your sacrifices sweet to Me.

21 Therefore thus says the Lord:

See, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people,
    and the fathers and the sons together will fall upon them.
    The neighbor and his friend will perish.

22 Thus says the Lord:

See, a people comes
    from the north country,
and a great nation will be raised
    from the remote parts of the earth.

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