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21     For death has found us all.
        It has crept in through our windows and slipped past our defenses.
    It has cut down our children in the streets,
        and our young men in the public squares. Death has found us all.
22     Tell everyone what the Eternal has said:
        “The dead bodies of men will fall like dung on the open field.
    Corpses will lie on the ground like grain cut in the harvest;
        but on this day, there will be no one to gather and bury the dead.”

Eternal One: 23 Let not the wise boast in their wisdom, nor the mighty in their strength, nor the rich in their wealth.

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21 Death has climbed in through our windows(A)
    and has entered our fortresses;
it has removed the children from the streets
    and the young men(B) from the public squares.

22 Say, “This is what the Lord declares:

“‘Dead bodies will lie
    like dung(C) on the open field,
like cut grain behind the reaper,
    with no one to gather them.’”

23 This is what the Lord says:

“Let not the wise boast of their wisdom(D)
    or the strong boast of their strength(E)
    or the rich boast of their riches,(F)

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