- For death has come up through our windows; It has entered our palaces To cut off the children from the streets, The young men from the town squares.
- Speak, "Thus says the LORD, 'The corpses of men will fall like dung on the open field, And like the sheaf after the reaper, But no one will gather them.'"
- Thus says the LORD, "Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches;
- but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things," declares the LORD.
- "Behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "that I will punish all who are circumcised and yet uncircumcised--
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- Death has climbed in through our windows and has entered our fortresses; it has cut off the children from the streets and the young men from the public squares.
- Say, "This is what the LORD declares: " 'The dead bodies of men will lie like refuse on the open field, like cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather them.' "
- This is what the LORD says: "Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches,
- but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight," declares the LORD.
- "The days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh-
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