19 Listen, earth!
I am about to bring disaster on these people,
the fruit of their own plotting,(A)
for they have paid no attention to my words.
They have rejected my instruction.(B)
20 What use to me is frankincense from Sheba(C)
or sweet cane(D) from a distant land?
Your burnt offerings are not acceptable;
your sacrifices do not please me.(E)
21 Therefore, this is what the Lord says:
I am going to place stumbling blocks before these people;
fathers and sons together will stumble over them;(F)
friends and neighbors will also perish.

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