Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 9:25

25 ¶ Behold the dayes come saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised, with the uncircumcised.

Viz. By the Babylonians.

q. d. Do not think to insist upon your external priviledge of circumcision, that you are Abrahams natural Seed, and thereby distinguished from other nations, as you sometimes were wont to do of the Temple, that you had God in the midst of you. Do not think that shall priviledge you, for you shall see, it shall not be long ere I bring the Chaldaeans upon those other Nations, which either are circumcised in the Flesh as well as you, and upon you also who are uncircumcised in heart as well as they, or whether circumcision was lost as being cast off by them, and so they were indeed uncircumcised, God tells them they shall fare alike, hence in the next verse he ranks Iudah next to Aegypt among the other uncircumcised Nations, for he looks to the circumcision of the heart, not of the body, to inward ▪ Worship not outward only; therefore some read it the circ[illegible: 1 letter]mcised in uncircumcision.

Marginal references: Heb. visit. upon.