21 For (A)death has come up through our windows;
It has entered our palaces
To cut off the (B)children from the streets,
The young men from the town squares.
22 Speak, “Thus says the Lord,
‘The corpses of men will fall (C)like dung on the open field,
And like the sheaf after the reaper,
But no one will gather them.’”

23 Thus says the Lord, “(D)Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the (E)mighty man boast of his might, let not a (F)rich man boast of his riches;

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