Jeremiah 6:20
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
What use to Me is frankincense from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please Me.”

Young's Literal Translation
Why [is] this to Me? frankincense from Sheba cometh, And the sweet cane from a land afar off, Your burnt-offerings [are] not for acceptance, And your sacrifices have not been sweet to Me.

King James Bible
To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings [are] not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.

Hebrew
What use
לָמָּה־ (lām·māh-)
Preposition-l | Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

to Me
לִ֤י (lî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew

is frankincense
לְבוֹנָה֙ (lə·ḇō·w·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 3828: Frankincense

from Sheba
מִשְּׁבָ֣א (miš·šə·ḇā)
Preposition-m | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 7614: Sheba -- a territory in soutwest Arabia, also the name of one or more descendant of Noah

or sweet
הַטּ֖וֹב (haṭ·ṭō·wḇ)
Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good

cane
וְקָנֶ֥ה (wə·qā·neh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7070: A reed, a, rod, shaft, tube, stem, the radius, beam

from a distant
מֶרְחָ֑ק (mer·ḥāq)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4801: Remoteness, a distant place, from afar

land?
מֵאֶ֣רֶץ (mê·’e·reṣ)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 776: Earth, land

Your burnt offerings
עֹלֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ (‘ō·lō·w·ṯê·ḵem)
Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 5930: Whole burnt offering

are not acceptable;
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

your sacrifices
וְזִבְחֵיכֶ֖ם (wə·ziḇ·ḥê·ḵem)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 2077: A slaughter, the flesh of an animal, a sacrifice

do not
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

please
עָ֥רְבוּ (‘ā·rə·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 6149: To be sweet or pleasing

Me.”
ס (s)
Punctuation
Strong's Hebrew

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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