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Jeremiah 4:4

King James Version (KJV)

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Jeremiah 4:4

Verse 4 of 31

Scripture focus

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.

Jeremiah 4:4 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Jeremiah 4:4

Theological / Devotional

Circumcise yourselves. All the Jews had been circumcised in the flesh, but not all had been circumcised “to the Lord.” The prophet sought to reveal the real meaning of the rite and to counteract a merely formal, ritualistic conception of it. Circumcision was intended to be a symbol of the devotion of the heart to God and a mark of separation from idolatry (see on Gen. 17:10, 11). To remove the foreskin of the heart meant to put away all impurity (see Deut. 10:16; 30:6). True circumcision is inward rather than outward (see Rom. 2:28, 29; Phil. 3:3; Col. 2:11).

None can quench it. The prophet likened God’s anger against sin to unquenchable fire, that is, fire that no one could extinguish until it had completed its work of destruction (see ch. 7:20).

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