Jeremiah 9:21-23

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²¹ For death is come up through our windows, it is entered into our houses to destroy the children from without, the young men from the streets.

²² Speak: Thus saith the Lord: Even the carcass of man shall fall as dung upon the face of the country, and as grass behind the back of the mower, and there is none to gather it.

²³ Thus saith the Lord: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, and let not the strong man glory in his strength, and let not the rich man glory in his riches: