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Circumcise yourselves to the Lord;
    remove the foreskin of your hearts,
    O people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem,
or else my wrath will go forth like fire
    and burn with no one to quench it,
    because of the evil of your doings.(A)

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16 Circumcise, then, the foreskin of your heart, and do not be stubborn any longer.(A)

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28 For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something external and physical.(A) 29 Rather, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not the written code. Such a person receives praise not from humans but from God.(B)

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11 In him also you were circumcised with a spiritual circumcision,[a] by the removal of the body[b] of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ;(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 2.11 Gk a circumcision made without hands
  2. 2.11 Other ancient authorities add of the sins

“Moreover, the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, in order that you may live.(A)

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26 Egypt, Judah, Edom, the Ammonites, Moab, and all those with shaved temples who live in the desert. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.(A)

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12 O house of David! Thus says the Lord:

Execute justice in the morning,
    and deliver from the hand of the oppressor
    anyone who has been robbed,
or else my wrath will go forth like fire
    and burn, with no one to quench it,
    because of their evil doings.(A)

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Seek the Lord and live,
    or he will break out against the house of Joseph like fire,
    and it will devour Bethel, with no one to quench it.(A)

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43 If your hand causes you to sin,[a] cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and to go to hell,[b] to the unquenchable fire.[c](A) 45 And if your foot causes you to sin,[d] cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and to be thrown into hell.[e][f](B) 47 And if your eye causes you to sin,[g] tear it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and to be thrown into hell,[h](C) 48 where their worm never dies and the fire is never quenched.(D)

49 “For everyone will be salted with fire.[i](E) 50 Salt is good, but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can you season it?[j] Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”(F)

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Footnotes

  1. 9.43 Or stumble
  2. 9.43 Gk Gehenna
  3. 9.43 Other ancient authorities add 9.44 and 9.46, which are identical to 9.48
  4. 9.45 Or stumble
  5. 9.45 Gk Gehenna
  6. 9.45 Other ancient authorities add 9.44 and 9.46, which are identical to 9.48
  7. 9.47 Or stumble
  8. 9.47 Gk Gehenna
  9. 9.49 Other ancient authorities add or substitute and every sacrifice will be salted with salt
  10. 9.50 Or how can you restore its saltiness?

before you are driven away[a]
    like the drifting chaff,[b]
before there comes upon you
    the fierce anger of the Lord,
before there comes upon you
    the day of the Lord’s wrath.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 2.2 Cn: Heb before a decree is born
  2. 2.2 Cn: Heb like chaff a day has passed away

God Will Restore Israel

33 As I live, says the Lord God, surely with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out, I will be king over you.(A)

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13 Yet when I cleansed you in your filthy lewdness,
    you did not become clean from your filth;
you shall not again be cleansed
    until I have satisfied my fury upon you.(A)

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11 The Lord gave full vent to his wrath;
    he poured out his hot anger
and kindled a fire in Zion
    that consumed its foundations.(A)

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To rouse my wrath, to take vengeance,
    I have placed the blood she shed
    on a bare rock,
    so that it may not be covered.

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47 say to the forest of the Negeb: Hear the word of the Lord: Thus says the Lord God: I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you and every dry tree; the blazing flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from south to north shall be scorched by it.(A) 48 All flesh shall see that I the Lord have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.(B)

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38 I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged and bring blood upon you in wrath and jealousy.(A)

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18 Therefore I will act in wrath; my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity, and though they cry in my hearing with a loud voice, I will not listen to them.”(A)

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12 Those far off shall die of pestilence, those nearby shall fall by the sword, and any who are left and are spared shall die of famine. Thus I will spend my fury upon them.(A)

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13 “My anger shall spend itself, and I will vent my fury on them and satisfy myself, and they shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken in my jealousy when I spend my fury on them.(A) 14 Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of mocking among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.(B) 15 You shall be[a] a mockery and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations around you when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury and with furious punishments—I, the Lord, have spoken(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 5.15 Q ms Gk Syr Vg Tg: MT It shall be

It may be that their plea will come before the Lord and that all of them will turn from their evil ways, for great is the anger and wrath that the Lord has pronounced against this people.”(A)

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19 Look, the storm of the Lord!
    Wrath has gone forth,
a whirling tempest;
    it will burst upon the head of the wicked.(A)

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I myself will fight against you with outstretched hand and mighty arm, in anger, in fury, and in great wrath.(A)

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17 Rouse yourself, rouse yourself!
    Stand up, O Jerusalem,
you who have drunk at the hand of the Lord
    the cup of his wrath,
who have drunk to the dregs
    the cup of staggering.(A)

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Judgment on Assyria

27 See, the name of the Lord comes from far away,
    his anger burning and his burden heavy;[a]
his lips are full of indignation,
    and his tongue is like a devouring fire;(A)
28 his breath is like an overflowing stream
    that reaches up to the neck—
to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction
    and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads them astray.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 30.27 Meaning of Heb uncertain

28 I will continue hostile to you in fury; I in turn will punish you myself sevenfold for your sins.

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