Jeremiah 9:21-23

New Catholic Bible

²¹ Death has climbed through our windows
    and has entered our palaces.
It has cut down the children in the streets
    and the young people in the public squares.
²² The corpses of the slain will be strewn
    like dung on an open field,
like sheaves left behind by the reaper
    with no one to gather them.

²³ Thus says the Lord:
    Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom,
or the strong man boast of his strength,
    or the rich man boast of his wealth.