Jeremiah 9:20-26

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²⁰Now, you women, hear the word of the Lord;
    open your ears to the words of his mouth.^(A)
Teach your daughters how to wail;
    teach one another a lament.^(B)
²¹Death has climbed in through our windows^(C)
    and has entered our fortresses;
it has removed the children from the streets
    and the young men^(D) from the public squares.

²²Say, “This is what the Lord declares:

“‘Dead bodies will lie
like dung^(E) on the open field,
like cut grain behind the reaper,
with no one to gather them.’”

²³This is what the Lord says:

“Let not the wise boast of their wisdom^(F)
    or the strong boast of their strength^(G)
    or the rich boast of their riches,^(H)
²⁴but let the one who boasts boast^(I) about this:
    that they have the understanding to know^(J) me,
that I am the Lord,^(K) who exercises kindness,^(L)
    justice and righteousness^(M) on earth,
    for in these I delight,”
declares the Lord.

²⁵“The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh^(N)— ²⁶Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab and all who live in the wilderness in distant places.^[a]^(O) For all these nations are really uncircumcised,^(P) and even the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.^(Q)”

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Footnotes

Jeremiah 9:26 Or wilderness and who clip the hair by their foreheads

Hebrews 10:1-10

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Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All

10 The law is only a shadow^(A) of the good things^(B) that are coming—not the realities themselves.^(C) For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect^(D) those who draw near to worship.^(E) ²Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins.^(F) ³But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins.^(G) ⁴It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats^(H) to take away sins.^(I)

⁵Therefore, when Christ came into the world,^(J) he said:

“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
    but a body you prepared for me;^(K)
⁶with burnt offerings and sin offerings
    you were not pleased.
⁷Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll^(L)—
    I have come to do your will, my God.’”^[a]^(M)

⁸First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them”^(N)—though they were offered in accordance with the law. ⁹Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.”^(O) He sets aside the first to establish the second. ¹⁰And by that will, we have been made holy^(P) through the sacrifice of the body^(Q) of Jesus Christ once for all.^(R)