Jeremiah 9:25
in Jeremiah 9“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised yet uncircumcised:
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will punish all them that are circumcised in their uncircumcision:
KJV
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
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This verse in Jeremiah 9
Commentary
5 notes on this verseon Jeremiah 9:25-26
(Vers. 25, 26.) Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will visit everyone who is circumcised and has the foreskin, including Egypt, Judah, Edom, the Ammonites, the Moabites, and all those who have shaved their heads and live in the desert, for all the nations are uncircumcised. But the house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.
This site's exposition
I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised
on Jeremiah 9:25-26
The days come that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised names Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon and Moab together, surrounding nations that practiced circumcision as a rite without the covenant behind it, standing alongside nations that did not practice it at all. All the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart delivers the chapter's last and sharpest reversal, the covenant sign present in the flesh and absent in the place that mattered, the same distinction Paul draws at Romans 2:28-29 between circumcision outward and circumcision of the heart. The bench reads the verse as Jeremiah's own answer to any confidence resting on the mark alone rather than on what the mark was meant to signify.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
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.
on Jeremiah 9:25-26
Note, The Judge of all the earth is impartial, and none shall fare the better at his bar for any external advantages, but he will render to every man, circumcised or uncircumcised, according to his works. The condemnation of impenitent sinners that are baptized will be as sure as, nay, and more severe than, that of impenitent sinners that are unbaptized.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
All them which are circumcised ... - Rather, “all circumcised in uncircumcision,” i. e., all who though outwardly circumcised have no corresponding inward purity.
The words behind it
10 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הִנֵּ֛ה | hineh | here! | H2009 → | 843 times |
| יָמִ֥ים | yamim | days | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| בָּאִ֖ים | baim | [are] coming | H935 → | 2568 times |
| נְאֻם־ | neum- | [the] utterance of | H5002 → | 376 times |
| יְהוָ֑ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| וּפָ֣קַדְתִּ֔י | ufakadti | and I will visit [judgment] | H6485 → | 303 times |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | every | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| מ֖וּל | mul | [man] circumcised | H4135 → | |
| בְּעָרְלָֽה׃ | bearelah | in a foreskin | H6190 → |
הִנֵּ֛הhere!
hinehH2009 →843 times
יָמִ֥יםdays
yamimH3117 →2304 times
בָּאִ֖ים[are] coming
baimH935 →2568 times
נְאֻם־[the] utterance of
neum-H5002 →376 times
יְהוָ֑הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
וּפָ֣קַדְתִּ֔יand I will visit [judgment]
ufakadtiH6485 →303 times
עַל־on
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
כָּל־every
kol-H3605 →5413 times
מ֖וּל[man] circumcised
mulH4135 →
בְּעָרְלָֽה׃in a foreskin
bearelahH6190 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Ezekiel 28:10You will die the death of the uncircumcised at the hands of foreigners. For I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.”
it leads to
- Ezekiel 31:18
Who then is like you in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden? You also will be brought down to the depths of the earth to be with the trees of Eden. You…
- Ezekiel 32:19
Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be placed with the uncircumcised!
- Ezekiel 32:21
Mighty chiefs will speak from the midst of Sheol about Egypt and her allies: ‘They have come down and lie with the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword.’
- 1 Samuel 17:26
David asked the men who were standing with him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Just who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he…
- 1 Samuel 17:36
Your servant has killed lions and bears; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.”
- Ezekiel 31:18
Where this verse is studied
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About Jeremiah
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Calvin, Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.