Jeremiah 7:29 “Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the bar…”

Jeremiah 7:29

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.’

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

American Standard Version

Cut off thy hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Jehovah hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

Geneva Bible 1599

Cut off thine heare, O Ierusalem, and cast it away, and take vp a complaint on the hie places: for the Lord hath reiected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

Darby Translation

Cut off thy hair, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the heights; for Jehovah hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

Young's Literal Translation

Cut off thy crown, and cast [it] away, And lift up on high places lamentation, For Jehovah hath rejected, And He leaveth the generation of His wrath.

Bible in Basic English

Let your hair be cut off, O Jerusalem, and let it go, and let a song of grief go up on the open hilltops; for the Lord is turned away from the generation of his wrath and has given them up.

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Cross references

“Cut”

Job 1:20 Micah 1:16 Jeremiah 16:6 Jeremiah 47:5 Jeremiah 48:37 Isaiah 15:2

Job 1:20 · BSB

Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,

Micah 1:16 · BSB

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 · BSB

“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.

Jeremiah 47:5 · BSB

The people of Gaza will shave their heads in mourning; Ashkelon will be silenced. O remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourself?

Jeremiah 48:37 · BSB

For every head is shaved and every beard is clipped; on every hand is a gash, and around every waist is sackcloth.

Isaiah 15:2 · BSB

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.

“and take”

Jeremiah 9:17–21 Ezekiel 19:1 Ezekiel 28:12

Jeremiah 9:17–21 · BSB

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 · BSB

“As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel

Ezekiel 28:12 · BSB

“Son of man, take up a lament for the king of Tyre and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

“for”

Jeremiah 6:30 2 Kings 17:20 Zechariah 11:8 Zechariah 11:9

Jeremiah 6:30 · BSB

They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”

2 Kings 17:20 · BSB

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.

Zechariah 11:8 · BSB

And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.

Zechariah 11:9 · BSB

Then I said, “I will no longer shepherd you. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish; and let those who remain devour one another’s flesh.”

“generation”

Deuteronomy 32:5 Matthew 3:7 Matthew 12:39 Matthew 16:4 Matthew 23:36 Acts 2:40

Deuteronomy 32:5 · BSB

His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the blemish on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.

Matthew 3:7 · BSB

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?

Matthew 12:39 · BSB

Jesus replied, “A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

Matthew 16:4 · BSB

A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.” Then He left them and went away.

Matthew 23:36 · BSB

Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

Acts 2:40 · BSB

With many other words he testified, and he urged them, “Be saved from this corrupt generation.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

28Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.

30For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.

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