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What the Lord Likes Best

23 The Lord says:

Don't brag about your wisdom
    or strength or wealth.
24 (A) If you feel you must brag,
    then have enough sense
to brag about worshiping me,
    the Lord.
What I like best
    is showing kindness,
justice, and mercy
    to everyone on earth.

25-26 Someday I will punish the nations of Egypt, Edom, Ammon, and Moab, and the tribes of the desert.[a] The men of these nations are circumcised, but they don't worship me. And it's the same with you people of Judah. Your bodies are circumcised, but your hearts are unchanged.

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Footnotes

  1. 9.25,26 the tribes of the desert: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

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