Circumcise yourselves to the Lord,
    circumcise your hearts,(A)
    you people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem,
or my wrath(B) will flare up and burn like fire(C)
    because of the evil(D) you have done—
    burn with no one to quench(E) it.

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Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

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

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Footnotes

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

25 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;

26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

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