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20 Of what use to Me is frankincense coming from Sheba
    or sweet cane from a distant country?
    Your burnt offerings are not acceptable,
    nor are your sacrifices pleasing to Me.”
21 Therefore thus says Adonai:
    “Look, I am laying before this people stumbling blocks—
    and against them they will stumble—
    fathers and the sons together,
    a neighbor and his friend,
        and they will perish.”

Destruction from the North

22 Thus says Adonai:
        “Look, a people coming from a northern land,
    a great nation roused from the ends of the earth!

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