Jeremiah 9:25

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 9:23-26

The prophet had been endeavouring to possess this people with a holy fear of God and his judgments, to convince them both of sin and wrath; but still they had recourse to some sorry subterfuge or other, under which to shelter themselves from the conviction and with which to excuse themselves in the obstinacy and carelessness. He therefore sets himself here to drive them from these refuges of lies and to show them the insufficiency of them. I. When they were told how inevitable the judgment... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 9:25

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord ,.... Or, "are coming" F8 ימים באים "dies sunt venientes", Schmidt, Montanus; "venturi sunt", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. ; 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... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 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,... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 9:25

Verse 25 The Prophet, after having removed the obstacle which he saw hindered the Jews from reverently receiving the truth of God, now speaks more sharply, and performs the office of a herald in denouncing the vengeance which was at hand: Behold, he says, come shall the days, in which I will visit all the uncircumcised in uncircumcision This passage admits of two meanings. Some interpreters take as distinct these two words, מול mul, the circumcised, בערלה, beorle, in uncircumcision; as though... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 9:23-26

Whereof to glory. Introduction. Cannot understand these prophecies without a knowledge of the history of the times. This is true of all prophecies, and especially of these. Therefore we will glance at such history as we proceed. Note— I. THE GLORYING THAT IS CONDEMNED . 1. That of the wise man in his wisdom . The statesmen of Jeremiah's days had been thus glorying. They had prided themselves in their political sagacity. For many years they had formed alliances, now... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 9:25

All them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised ; rather, all the circumcised in uncircumcision , or, as Ewald turns it, "all the uncircumcised-circumcised." But what does this enigmatical expression signify? Hitzig, Graf, and apparently Dr. Payne Smith, think that it has a twofold meaning: that, as applied to the Jews, it means circumcised in the flesh, but not in heart, and, as applied to the heathen, simply uncircumcised (the one-half of the phrase neutralizing the other, like... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 9:25-26

A further enforcement of the doctrine that no outward privileges, if dissociated from inward moral vitality, will avail. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 9:25-26

Impartial justice. I. SPECIAL PRIVILEGES DO NOT INTENSE WITH THE IMPARTIAL EXERCISE OF DIVINE JUSTICE . Judah is specially privileged, and prizes circumcision as a seal of the peculiar favor of Heaven ( Genesis 17:9-14 ). Yet Judah must take its place in the indiscriminate catalogue of corrupt nations. If privileges are noted in God's exercise of justice, this can only be as an aggravation of guilt. The citizens of favored nations, the heirs of rank and wealth,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 9:25

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

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 9:25-26

Jeremiah 9:25-26. Behold the days come, &c. Blaney translates these two verses, “Behold, the days are coming, saith Jehovah, that I will punish all the circumcision with the uncircumcision; Egypt, &c., and all those that have their coast insulated, those that dwell in the wilderness: for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.” The Greek word ακροβυσια , which properly means uncircumcision, is several times used by St. Paul for the... read more

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