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Jeremiah 9:24

Verse 24 of 26. The 9th of 52 chapters in Jeremiah, in The Major Prophets.

20Yet hear the LORD’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing. Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.

21For 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.

22Speak, “The LORD 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.’”

23The LORD 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.

24But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am the LORD who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness on the earth, for I delight in these things,” says the LORD.

25“Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh:

26Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness, for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.