Yeremia 6:20

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Apakah gunanya bagi-Ku kamu bawa kemenyan dari Syeba dan tebu yang baik dari negeri yang jauh? Aku tidak berkenan kepada korban-korban bakaranmu dan korban-korban sembelihanmu tidak menyenangkan hati-Ku.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Apakah gunanya bagi-Ku kamu bawa kemenyan dari Syeba dan tebu yang baik dari negeri yang jauh? Aku tidak berkenan kepada korban-korban bakaranmu dan korban-korban sembelihanmu tidak menyenangkan hati-Ku.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Sebab itu apa guna dibawanya kepada-Ku kemenyan dari Syeba dan deringu yang terbaik dari negeri yang jauh? Bahwa akan korban bakaranmu tiada Aku berkenan dan korban sembelihanmu tiada sedap bagi-Ku.

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ Heare therefore ye gentiles, and thou congregation shalt know what I haue deuised for them. ¹⁹ Heare thou earth also: behold, I wyll cause a plague to come vpon this people, euen the fruite of their owne imaginations, for that they haue not ben obedient vnto my wordes and to my lawe, but abhorred them. ²⁰ Wherefore bryng ye me incense from Saba, and sweete smelling calamus from farre countreys? your burnt offeringes displease me, and I reioyce not in your sacrifices. ²¹ And therefore thus saith the Lorde: Beholde, I wyll lay stumbling blockes among this people, and there shall fall at them the father with the chyldren, one neighbour shall perishe with another. ²² Thus saith the Lorde: Beholde, there shall come a people from the north, and a great people shal arise from the endes of the earth. ²³ With bowes and with dartes shall they be weaponed, it is a rough and fearce people, & an vnmercifull people: their voyce roareth like the sea, thei ride vpon horses well appointed to the battaile against thee O daughter Sion. ²⁴ The fame of them haue we hearde, our armes are feeble, heauinesse and sorowe is come vpon vs, as vpon a woman trauayling with chylde. ²⁵ Let no man go foorth into the fielde, let no man come vpon the hye streete: for the sworde and feare of the enemie is on euery side. ²⁶ Wherfore gyrde a sackcloth about thee O thou daughter of my people, sprinkle thy selfe with ashes: mourne and weepe bitterly as vpon thyne onlye beloued sonne, for the destroyer shall sodainly fall vpon vs. ²⁷ Thee haue I set for a strong towre [O thou prophete] and a well fensed wall among my people, to seeke out and to trye their wayes.

Bible Verse Review
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To what: Psalms 40:6, Psalms 50:7-13, Psalms 50:16, Psalms 50:17, Psalms 66:3, Isaiah 1:11, Isaiah 66:3, Ezekiel 20:39, Amos 5:21, Amos 5:22, Micah 6:6-8

Sheba: 1 Kings 10:1, 1 Kings 10:2, 1 Kings 10:10, Isaiah 60:6, Ezekiel 27:22

sweet cane: Isaiah 43:23, Isaiah 43:24

your burnt: Jeremiah 7:21-23

Reciprocal: Genesis 4:7 - If thou doest well Exodus 29:18 - a burnt offering Exodus 30:23 - thee principal Leviticus 10:19 - should Proverbs 15:8 - sacrifice Proverbs 21:27 - sacrifice Jeremiah 14:10 - the Lord Jeremiah 14:12 - and when Hosea 9:4 - neither Joel 3:8 - far off Malachi 1:10 - I have Malachi 2:13 - insomuch Romans 12:1 - acceptable Ephesians 5:10 - acceptable 1 Timothy 4:8 - bodily Hebrews 10:4 - not Hebrews 10:5 - Sacrifice

Cross-References

Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God sayde vnto them: be fruitefull, & multiplie, and replenishe the earth, & subdue it, and haue dominion of the fisshe of the sea, and foule of the ayre, & of euery lyuing thing that moueth vpon the earth.

Genesis 2:19
And so out of the grounde the Lorde God had shapen euery beast of the field, and euery foule of the ayre, and brought it vnto man, that he myght see howe he woulde call it. For lykewyse as man hym selfe named euery lyuyng thyng, euen so was the name therof.

Genesis 6:8
But Noah founde grace in the eyes of the Lorde.

Genesis 6:11
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the same earth was fylled with crueltie.

Genesis 6:12
And God loked vpon the earth, and beholde it was corrupt: for all fleshe had corrupt his way vpon earth.

Genesis 6:16
A wyndowe shalt thou make in the arke, and in a cubite shalt thou finishe it aboue: but the doore of the arke shalt thou set in the syde therof. With three loftes one aboue another shalt thou make it.

Genesis 6:20
Of fethered foules also after their kinde, and of all cattell after their kinde: of euery worme of the earth after his kynde, two of euery one shall come vnto thee, to kepe [them] alyue.

John 5:40
And yet wyll ye not come to me, that ye myght haue lyfe.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The sweet cane - The same as the scented cane of Exodus 30:23 (see the note).

Your burnt offerings - The rejection of ritual observances is proclaimed by the two prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah, who chiefly assisted the two pious kings, Hezekiah and Josiah, in restoring the temple-service. God rejects not the ceremonial service, but the substitution of it for personal holiness and morality. Compare 1 Samuel 15:22; Isaiah 1:11; Micah 6:6-8.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 6:20. Incense frown Sheba — Sheba was in Arabia, famous for the best incense. It was situated towards the southern extremity of the peninsula of Arabia; and was, in respect of Judea, a far country.

And the sweet cane from a far country — The calamus aromaticus, which, when dried and pulverized, yields a very fine aromatic smell; see on Isaiah 43:24. This was employed in making the holy anointing oil. See Exodus 30:23.