Jeremiah 7:29

Translations

Modern

Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’

Traditional

Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

Literal

Cut off your consecrated hair and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the barren heights; for YHWH has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath!’

Latin

Tonde capillum tuum, et projice, et sume in directum planctum: quia projecit Dominus et reliquit generationem furoris sui;

Original

Hebrew

English

Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’

Notes

Jeremiah 7:27–29

The Lord told Jeremiah to keep sharing his messages, even though the people of Judah had completely rejected the Lord and would not listen (compare Ezekiel 2:7). Jeremiah should shave his head, mourn, and weep alone on the mountains (compare Job 1:20).

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Prophecies of Jeremiahc. 628 BC

Related verses

Job 1:20
Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,
Jeremiah 6:30
They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”
Micah 1:16
Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in mourning for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they will go from you into exile.
Jeremiah 16:6
“Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned, nor will anyone cut himself or shave his head for them.
Isaiah 15:2–3
Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.
Acts 2:40
With many other words he testified, and he urged them, “Be saved from this corrupt generation.”
Matthew 12:39
Jesus replied, “A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
2 Kings 17:20
So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel. He afflicted them and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, until He had banished them from His presence.
Matthew 3:7
But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Jeremiah 9:17–21
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.
Ezekiel 19:1
“As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel
Matthew 23:36
Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

Glossary

Bible, Manuscripts and Text of the (Old Testament) Book of Jeremiah Jeremiah (Person) Temple

Topics

Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Condescension of God: Expostulates with Backsliding Israel Holy Spirit: Withdrawn from Incorrigible Sinners Impenitence: General Scriptures Concerning Mourning: Cutting or Plucking off the Hair and Beard Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments The Hair: Cut off in Affliction

Jeremiah 7:29

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