To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba,.... In Persia or Arabia, from whence incense was brought, and perhaps the best; see Isa 60:6, and yet the offering of this was of no esteem with God, when the words of the prophet, and the law of his mouth, were despised; see Isa 1:13:and the sweet cane from a far country?
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Jeremiah 6:20
Jeremiah 6:20
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