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Jeremiah 6:20

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To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”

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Jeremiah 6:20 in other translations

To what purpose cometh there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing unto me.

Jeremiah 6:20 · American Standard Version

Jeremiah 6:20 in context

  1. 18Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is among them.
  2. 19Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.
  3. 20To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”
  4. 21Therefore Yahweh says, “Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people. The fathers and the sons together will stumble against them. The neighbor and his friend will perish.”
  5. 22Yahweh says, “Behold, a people comes from the north country. A great nation will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.