20 What do I care about incense from Sheba
    or sweet calamus from a distant land?
Your burnt offerings are not acceptable;
    your sacrifices do not please me.’

21 Therefore this is what the Lord says:

‘I will put obstacles before this people.
    Parents and children alike will stumble over them;
    neighbours and friends will perish.’

22 This is what the Lord says:

‘Look, an army is coming
    from the land of the north;
a great nation is being stirred up
    from the ends of the earth.

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