19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we destroyed! We are greatly confounded. Why have we forsaken the land? Why have our dwellings cast us out?
20 Yet 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 each one her neighbour lamentation.
21 For 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.
22 Speak, Thus hath the Lord said, Even the carcasses of men shall fall as dung upon the open field and as the handful after the harvestman, and there shall be none to gather them.
23 Thus hath the Lord said, 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;
24 but let him that glories glory in this, that he understands me and knows me, that I am the Lord who does mercy, judgment, and righteousness in the earth: for in these things I delight, said the Lord.
25 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will visit all those who are circumcised with the uncircumcised: