²⁵ “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh^(A)—

²⁶ Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab and all who live in the wilderness in distant places.^[a](A) For all these nations are really uncircumcised,^(B) and even the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.^(C)”

I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.’”

¹⁹ Say to them, ‘Are you more favored than others? Go down and be laid among the uncircumcised.’^(A)

²¹ From within the realm of the dead^(A) the mighty leaders will say of Egypt and her allies, ‘They have come down and they lie with the uncircumcised,^(B) with those killed by the sword.’