20“For what purpose does frankincense come to Me from Sheba
         And the sweet cane from a distant land?
         Your burnt offerings are not acceptable
         And your sacrifices are not pleasing to Me.”

21Therefore, thus says the LORD,
         “Behold, I am laying stumbling blocks before this people.
         And they will stumble against them,
         Fathers and sons together;
         Neighbor and friend will perish.”

The Enemy from the North

22Thus says the LORD,
         “Behold, a people is coming from the north land,
         And a great nation will be aroused from the remote parts of the earth.

23“They seize bow and spear;
         They are cruel and have no mercy;
         Their voice roars like the sea,
         And they ride on horses,
         Arrayed as a man for the battle
         Against you, O daughter of Zion!”

24We have heard the report of it;
         Our hands are limp.
         Anguish has seized us,
         Pain as of a woman in childbirth.

25Do not go out into the field
         And do not walk on the road,
         For the enemy has a sword,
         Terror is on every side.

26O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth
         And roll in ashes;
         Mourn as for an only son,
         A lamentation most bitter.
         For suddenly the destroyer
         Will come upon us.

27“I have made you an assayer and a tester among My people,
         That you may know and assay their way.”

28All of them are stubbornly rebellious,
         Going about as a talebearer.
         They are bronze and iron;
         They, all of them, are corrupt.

29The bellows blow fiercely,
         The lead is consumed by the fire;
         In vain the refining goes on,
         But the wicked are not separated.

30They call them rejected silver,
         Because the LORD has rejected them.

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