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21 For death has come up into our windows.
    It has entered into our palaces
to cut off the children from outside,
    and the young men from the streets.

22 Speak, “Yahweh says,

“‘The dead bodies of men will fall as dung on the open field,
    and as the handful after the harvester.
    No one will gather them.’”

23 Yahweh says,

“Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom.
    Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might.
    Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

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