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20 (A)What use to me is (B)frankincense that comes from (C)Sheba,
    or sweet cane from a distant land?
(D)Your burnt offerings are not acceptable,
    nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.

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12 Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, (A)and though they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them (B)by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”

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(A)They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the Lord,
    (B)and their sacrifices shall not please him.
It shall be like (C)mourners' bread to them;
    all who eat of it shall be defiled;
for their bread shall be for their hunger only;
    (D)it shall not come to the house of the Lord.

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10 (A)Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of hosts, (B)and I will not accept an offering from your hand.

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13 But you say, (A)‘What a weariness this is’, and you snort at it, says the Lord of hosts. (B)You bring what has been taken by violence or is lame or sick, and this you bring as your offering! Shall I accept that from your hand? says the Lord.

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13 And this second thing you do. (A)You cover the Lord's altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favour from your hand.

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