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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.
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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."'
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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;
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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 .
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"Behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD , "that I will punish all who are circumcised and yet uncircumcised -