Jeremiah 9:17-25

17This is what the Lord of armies says: “Consider and call for the 1mourning women, that they may come; And send for the 23skillful women, that they may come!18Have them hurry and take up a wailing for us, So that our 4eyes may shed tears, And our eyelids flow with water.19For a voice of 5wailing is heard from Zion: ‘6How devastated we are! We are put to great shame, For we have 7abandoned the land Because they have torn down our homes.’”20Now hear the word of the Lord, you 8women, And let your ears receive the word of His mouth; Teach your daughters wailing, And have every woman teach her neighbor a song of mourning.21For 9death has come up through our windows; It has entered our palaces To eliminate the 10children from the streets, The young men from the public squares.22Speak, “This is what the Lord says: ‘The corpses of people will fall 11like dung on the open field, And like the sheaf after the reaper, But no one will gather them.’”

23This is what the Lord says: “12Let no wise man boast of his wisdom, nor let the 13mighty man boast of his might, nor a 14rich man boast of his riches; 24but let the one who boasts 15boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord who 16exercises 17mercy, justice, and righteousness on the earth; for I 18delight in these things,” declares the Lord.

25“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “that I will punish all who are circumcised and yet 19uncircumcised--