Break up [a]your fallow ground, and sow not among the thorns: be circumcised to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your hearts, ye men of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem, lest my wrath come forth like fire, and burn, that none can quench it, because of the wickedness of your inventions.

[b]Declare in Judah, and show forth in Jerusalem, and say, Blow the trumpet in the land: cry, and gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into strong cities.

Set up the standard in Zion: [c]prepare to flee, and stay not: for I will bring a plague from the North, and a great destruction.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 4:4 He willeth them to pluck up the impiety and wicked affection and worldly respects out of their heart, that the true seed of God’s word may be sown therein, Hos. 10:12, and this is the true circumcision of the heart, Deut. 10:16; Rom. 2:29; Col. 2:11.
  2. Jeremiah 4:5 He warneth them of the great dangers that shall come upon them by the Chaldeans, except, they repent and turn to the Lord.
  3. Jeremiah 4:6 He speaketh this to admonish them of the great danger when every man shall prepare to save himself, but it shall be too late, 2 Kings 25:4.

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