²⁵ Do not run until your feet are bare
    and your throat is dry.
But you said, ‘It’s no use!^(A)
    I love foreign gods,^(B)
    and I must go after them.’^(C)

²⁰ What do I care about incense from Sheba^(A)
    or sweet calamus^(B) from a distant land?
Your burnt offerings are not acceptable;^(C)
    your sacrifices^(D) do not please me.”^(E)

¹³ Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to me,
    and though they eat^(A) the meat,
    the Lord is not pleased with them.^(B)
Now he will remember^(C) their wickedness
    and punish their sins:^(D)
    They will return to Egypt.^(E)