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20 What do I care about incense from the land of Sheba?
    Why should I bother with sweet-smelling cane from a land far away?
I do not accept your burnt offerings.
    Your sacrifices do not please me.”

21 So the Lord says,

“I will bring an army against the people of Judah.
    Parents and children alike will trip and fall.
    Neighbors and friends will die.”

22 The Lord says to Jerusalem,

“Look! An army is coming
    from the land of the north.
I am stirring up a great nation.
    Its army is coming from a land that is very far away.

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