Jeremiah 7 · Verse 29

Jeremiah 7:29

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.

Jeremiah 7:29, King James Version

Jeremiah 7:29 in other translations

BSB	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.’
WEB	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.
ASV	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.
YLT	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.
DARBY	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.
BBE	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.
Webster	Cut off thy 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.

What does Jeremiah 7:29 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

29. Jeremiah addresses Jerusalem under the figure of a woman, who, in grief for her lost children, deprives her head of its chief ornament and goes up to the hills to weep (Jud 11:37, 38; Is 15:2). hair--flowing locks, like those of a Nazarite. high places--The scene of her idolatries is to be the scene of her mourning (Jr 3:21). generation of his wrath--the generation with which He is wroth. So Is 10:6; "the people of My wrath."

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 29 Cut off thine hair - גזי נזרך gozzi nizrech, shear thy nazarite. The Nazarite was one who took upon him a particular vow, and separated himself from all worldly connections for a certain time, that he might devote himself without interruption to the service of God; and during all this time no razor was to pass on his head, for none of his hair was to be taken off. After the vow was over, he shaved his head and beard, and returned to society. See Num 6:2 (note), etc., and the notes there. Jerusalem is here considered under the notion of a Nazarite, by profession devoted to the service of God: but that profession was empty; it was not accompanied with any suitable practice. God tells them here to cut off their hair; to make no vain pretensions to holiness or religion; to throw off the mask, and attempt no longer to impose upon themselves and others by their hypocritical pretensions. On the same ground he orders them, Jer 7:21, to devote to common use the animals destined for sacrifice; and to make no more vain shows of religion while their hearts were not right with him. Dr. Blayney thinks the address is to the prophet, who was a Nazarite by virtue of his office, and who was called to cut off his hair as a token of mourning for the desolations which were coming upon his people. That cutting off the hair was a sign of distress and mourning may be seen, Ezr 9:3; Isa 15:2; Jer 41:5, etc. But I think the other the more natural construction. On high places - That the lamentation may be heard to the greater distance. The generation of his wrath - Persons exposed to punishment: used here as children of wrath, Eph 2:3.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 7:29-34

In token both of sorrow and of slavery, Jerusalem must be degraded, and separated from God, as she had been separated to him. The heart is the place in which God has chosen to put his name; but if sin has the innermost and uppermost place there, we pollute the temple of the Lord. The destruction of Jerusalem appears here very terrible. The slain shall be many; they having made it the place of their sin. Evil pursues sinners, even after death. Those who will not, by the grace of God, be cured of vain mirth, shall, by the justice of God, be deprived of all mirth. How many ruin their health and property without complaining, when engaged in Satan's service! May we learn to relish holy joys, and to sit loose to all others though lawful.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Jeremiah 7:29 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

גָּזִּ֤יga.Zicut offH1494

נִזְרֵךְ֙niz.reKhhair yourH5145

וְֽהַשְׁלִ֔יכִיve.hash.Li.khiand throw [it] awayH7993

וּשְׂאִ֥יu.se.'Iand take upH5375

עַל\־'al-onH5921

שְׁפָיִ֖םshe.fa.Yimbare heightsH8205

קִינָ֑הki.Naha lamentationH7015

כִּ֚יkiforH3588

מָאַ֣סma.'Ashe has rejectedH3988

יְהוָ֔הYah.wehYahwehH3068

וַיִּטֹּ֖שׁvai.yi.Toshand he has abandonedH5203

אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853

דּ֥וֹרDor[the] generation ofH1755

עֶבְרָתֽוֹ\׃ev.ra.Tofury hisH5678

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Jeremiah 7:29

Job 1:20
Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
Micah 1:16
Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
Jeremiah 6:30
Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.
Jeremiah 16:6
Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
Ezekiel 19:1
Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
Matthew 12:39
But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
Ezekiel 28:12
Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
Jeremiah 47:5
Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
Matthew 16:4
A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
Zechariah 11:8-9
Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me. Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.
Matthew 23:36
Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
Jeremiah 48:37
For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Cut.
16:6; 47:5; 48:37; Job 1:20; Isa 15:2,3; Mic 1:16
and take.
9:17-21; Eze 19:1; 28:12
for.
6:30; 2Ki 17:20; Zec 11:8,9
generation.
De 32:5; Mt 3:7; 12:39; 16:4; 23:36; Ac 2:40

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Context

Jeremiah 7:28
But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the Lord their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
Jeremiah 7:29
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.
Jeremiah 7:30
For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.

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Jeremiah 7:29 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Trasquila tu cabello, y arrójalo, y levanta llanto sobre las alturas; porque Jehová ha aborrecido y dejado la nación de su ira.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Coupe ta chevelure, et jette-la loin, et, sur les hauteurs, élève une complainte; car l’ Éternel a rejeté et abandonné la génération de sa colère.
German Elberfelder 1871	Schere deinen Haarschmuck und wirf ihn weg, und erhebe ein Klagelied auf den kahlen Höhen: denn Jehova hat das Geschlecht seines Grimmes verworfen und verstoßen.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Tonde capillum tuum, et projice, et sume in directum planctum: quia projecit Dominus et reliquit generationem furoris sui;