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Jeremiah 9:21

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19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.Select Jeremiah 9:19

20Yet hear the word of the Lord, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.Select Jeremiah 9:20

21For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.Select Jeremiah 9:21

22Speak, Thus saith the Lord, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.Select Jeremiah 9:22

23Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:Select Jeremiah 9:23

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9:21 For death has come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.

ASV

9:21 For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

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