Jeremiah 7:29

Cut off your crown, and cast [it] away, || And lift up lamentation on high places, || For YHWH has rejected, || And He leaves the generation of His wrath.

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In The 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.

In Context

28And you have said to them: This [is] the nation that has not listened, || To the voice of its God YHWH, || Nor have they accepted instruction, || Steadfastness has perished, || Indeed, it has been cut off from their mouth.

30For the sons of Judah || Have done evil in My eyes,” || A declaration of YHWH, || “They have set their abominations in the house || On which My Name is called—to defile it,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:5It has done corruptly to Him; Their blemish is not of His sons, || A generation perverse and crooked!

Job 1:20And Job rises, and tears his robe, and shaves his head, and falls to the earth, and pays respect,

Jeremiah 6:30They have called them rejected silver, || For YHWH has kicked against them!”

Jeremiah 9:17Thus said YHWH of Hosts: “Consider, and call for mourning women, || And they come, || And send to the wise women, || And they come,

Jeremiah 16:6And great and small have died in this land, || They are not buried, and none lament for them, || Nor does any cut himself, nor become bald for them.

Jeremiah 48:37For every head [is] bald, and every beard diminished, || On all hands—cuttings, and on the loins—sackcloth.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 7:22-29

Obedience Better than Sacrifice. ( b. c. 606.) 21 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. 22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: 23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. 24 But… Read the whole commentary →

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