3 For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem , " Break up your fallow ground , And do not sow among thorns . 4 " Circumcise yourselves to the Lord And remove the foreskins of your heart , Men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem , Or else My wrath will go forth like fire And burn with none to quench it, Because e of the evil of your deeds ."
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Jeremiah 4:3-4
Commentary on Jeremiah 4:3-4
(Read Jeremiah 4:3-4)
An unhumbled heart is like ground untilled. It is ground which may be improved; it is our ground let out to us; but it is fallow; it is over-grown with thorns and weeds, the natural product of the corrupt heart. Let us entreat the Lord to create in us a clean heart, and to renew a right spirit within us; for except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven.