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Geremia 6:20

Listen to Geremia 6:20
20 A che offerirmi l’incenso che vien di Seba, e la buona canna odorosa che viene di lontan paese? i vostri olocausti non mi sono a grado, e i vostri sacrificii non mi son piacevoli.

Geremia 6:20 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 6:20

To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba
In Persia or Arabia, from whence incense was brought, and perhaps the best; see ( Isaiah 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 ( Isaiah 1:13 ) : and the sweet cane from a far country?
either from the same place, Sheba, which was a country afar off, ( Joel 3:8 ) , or from India, as Jerom interprets it; this was one of the spices in the anointing oil, ( Exodus 30:23 ) and though this was of divine appointment, and an omission of it is complained of, ( Isaiah 43:24 ) yet when this was brought with a hypocritical heart, and to atone for neglects of the moral law, and sins committed against that, it was rejected by the Lord: your burnt, offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet
unto me:
being offered up with a wicked mind, and without faith in Christ, and in order to expiate the guilt of black crimes unrepented of, and continued in; they were not grateful to God, nor could he smell a sweet savour in them, but loathed and abhorred them; see ( Isaiah 1:11 ) .

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Geremia 6:20 In-Context

18 Perciò, o genti, ascoltate; e tu, o raunanza, conosci ciò che è in loro.
19 Ascolta, o terra. Ecco, io fo venire un male sopra questo popolo, il frutto de’ lor pensieri; perciocchè non hanno atteso alle mie parole, ed hanno rigettata la mia Legge.
20 A che offerirmi l’incenso che vien di Seba, e la buona canna odorosa che viene di lontan paese? i vostri olocausti non mi sono a grado, e i vostri sacrificii non mi son piacevoli.
21 Per tanto, così ha detto il Signore: Ecco, io metterò a questo popolo degl’intoppi, ne’ quali s’intopperanno, padri e figliuoli insieme; vicini ed amici periranno.
22 Così ha detto il Signore: Ecco, un popolo viene dal paese di Settentrione, ed una gran gente si muove dal fondo della terra.
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