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21 For death has come up into our windows;
    it has entered our palaces,
(A)cutting off the children from the streets
    and the young men from the squares.
22 Speak, “Thus declares the Lord:
(B)‘The dead bodies of men shall fall
    like dung upon the open field,
(C)like sheaves after the reaper,
    and none shall gather them.’”

23 Thus says the Lord: (D)“Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,

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