- 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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- For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
- Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
- Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
- But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
- Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
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