Jeremiah 9:25

Lexham English Bible

Contextual Overview

²³ Thus says Yahweh, "The wise man must not boast in his wisdom, and the warrior must not boast in his might, the wealthy man must not boast in his wealth. ²⁴ But only in this must the one who boasts boast, that he has insight, and that he knows me, that I am Yahweh, showing loyal love, justice, and righteousness on the earth, for in these things I delight," declares Yahweh. ²⁵ "Look, days are coming," declares Yahweh, "and I will call into account all those who are circumcised in the foreskin: ²⁶ Egypt, Judah, and Edom, and the Ammonites, and Moab, and all those who are trimmed to the side, those who live in the desert, for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised of heart."

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that: Ezekiel 28:10, Ezekiel 32:19-32, Amos 3:2, Romans 2:8, Romans 2:9, Romans 2:25, Romans 2:26, Galatians 5:2-6

punish: Heb. visit upon

Reciprocal: Genesis 17:10 - Every Leviticus 19:23 - uncircumcised Leviticus 26:41 - their uncircumcised Joshua 5:9 - I rolled away 1 Samuel 31:4 - uncircumcised Isaiah 24:10 - of confusion Jeremiah 21:14 - punish Ezekiel 25:2 - the Ammonites Ezekiel 25:11 - upon Ezekiel 29:2 - against all Ezekiel 31:18 - thou shalt Ezekiel 35:2 - and prophesy Amos 2:4 - Judah Amos 9:7 - ye not Obadiah 1:1 - concerning Obadiah 1:15 - the day Habakkuk 1:5 - ye among Acts 7:51 - uncircumcised Ephesians 2:11 - Uncircumcision

Cross-References

Genesis 3:14
Then Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you will be cursed more than any domesticated animal and more than any wild animal. On your belly you shall go and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.

Genesis 4:11
So now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive the blood of your brother from your hand.

Genesis 9:7
"And you, be fruitful and multiply, swarm on the earth and multiply in it."

Genesis 9:8
And God said to Noah and to his sons with him,

Genesis 9:20
And Noah began to be a man of the ground, and he planted a vineyard.

Genesis 9:21
And he drank some of the wine and became drunk, and he exposed himself in the midst of his tent.

Genesis 9:22
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and he told his two brothers outside.

Genesis 9:28
And Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood.

Genesis 49:7
Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and I will scatter them in Israel.

Deuteronomy 27:16
‘Cursed be the one who dishonors his father or his mother.' And all of the people shall say, ‘Amen.'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord,.... Or, "are coming" h; it seems to respect the time after the Babylonish captivity, when the punishment after threatened took place, and not before:

that I will punish all them that are circumcised with the uncircumcised; Jews and Gentiles together. The circumcised. Jews trusting in their circumcision, and being, as is said in the next verse, uncircumcised in heart, were no better than the uncircumcised Gentiles; wherefore both being transgressors of the law, and despisers of the Gospel of Christ, are threatened with destruction; see Romans 2:12.

h ימים באים "dies [sunt] venientes", Schmidt, Montanus; "venturi sunt", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

All them which are circumcised ... - Rather, “all circumcised in uncircumcision,” i. e., all who though outwardly circumcised have no corresponding inward purity.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 9:25. I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised — Do not imagine that you, because of your crimes, are the only objects of my displeasure; the circumcised and the uncircumcised, the Jew and the Gentile, shall equally feel the stroke of my justice, their transgressions being alike, after their advantages and disadvantages are duly compared. In like manner, other nations also were delivered into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, these he immediately enumerates: Egypt and Edom, and the Moabites and the Ammonites, and the Arabians of the desert. All these nations were uncircumcised in that way which God required that rite to be practised as a sign of his covenant; and the Israelites, that did practise it as a sign of that covenant, did not attend to its spiritual meaning, for they were all uncircumcised in heart. And it may be remarked, that these people were in general confederated against the Chaldeans.