Jeremiah 7:29

Jeremiah 7:29 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)“ ‘Cut off your hair and throw it away; take up a lament on the barren heights, for the Lord has rejected and abandoned this generation that is under his wrath.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"'Cut off your hair and cast it away; raise a lamentation on the bare heights, for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.'
• New King James Version (NKJV)Cut off your hair and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the desolate heights; for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’

Context of Jeremiah 7:29

27“When you speak all these things to them, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer you. 28Therefore, declare to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the Lord their God and would not accept discipline. Truth has perished — it has disappeared from their mouths. Cut off the hair of your sacred vow and throw it away. Raise up a dirge on the barren heights, for the Lord has rejected and abandoned the generation under his wrath.’ 30“For the Judeans have done what is evil in my sight.” This is the Lord’s declaration. “They have set up their abhorrent things in the house that bears my name in order to defile it. 31They have built the high places of Topheth in Ben Hinnom Valley in order to burn their sons and daughters in the fire, a thing I did not command; I never entertained the thought.

Jeremiah 7:29 word by word

גָּזִּ֤י נִזְרֵךְ֙ וְֽהַשְׁלִ֔יכִי וּשְׂאִ֥י עַל־שְׁפָיִ֖ם קִינָ֑ה כִּ֚י מָאַ֣ס יְהוָ֔ה וַיִּטֹּ֖שׁ אֶת־דּ֥וֹר עֶבְרָתֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Cut offגָּזַזgâzaz · to shearH1494
• thine hairנֵ֫זֶרnezer nêzer · consecration: hairH5145
• awayשָׁלַךְshâlak · to throwH7993
• and take upנָשָׂאnâώâ' nâsâh · to lift: raiseH5375
• a lamentationקִינָהqîynâh · dirgeH7015
• on high placesשְׁפִיshephîy · barenessH8205
• for the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• hath rejectedמָאַסmâ'as · to rejectH3988
• and forsakenנָטַשׁnâţash · to leaveH5203
• the generationדּוֹרdôr dôr · generationH1755
• of his wrathעֶבְרָה‛ebrâh · furyH5678

Cross-references for Jeremiah 7:29

• Jeremiah 16:6“Both great and small will die in this land without burial. No lament will be made for them, nor will anyone cut himself or shave his head for them.
• Jeremiah 47:5Baldness is coming to Gaza; Ashkelon will become silent. Remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourself?
• Jeremiah 48:37Indeed, every head is bald and every beard is chopped short. On every hand is a gash and sackcloth around the waist.
• Job 1:20Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,
• Isaiah 15:2Dibon went up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails on Nebo and at Medeba. Every head is shaved; every beard is chopped short.
• Micah 1:16Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in sorrow for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they have been taken from you into exile.
• Jeremiah 9:17This is what the Lord of Armies says: Consider, and summon the women who mourn; send for the skillful women.
• Ezekiel 19:1“As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel,
• Ezekiel 28:12“Son of man, lament for the king of Tyre and say to him, ‘This is what the Lord God says: You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
• Jeremiah 6:30They are called rejected silver, for the Lord has rejected them.
• 2 Kings 17:20So the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel, punished them, and handed them over to plunderers until he had banished them from his presence.
• Zechariah 11:8In one month I got rid of three shepherds. I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.
• Deuteronomy 32:5His people have acted corruptly toward him; this is their defect — they are not his children but a devious and crooked generation.
• Matthew 3:7When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
• Matthew 12:39He answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
• Matthew 16:4An evil and adulterous generation demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” Then he left them and went away.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 7:29

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 29Cut off thine hair - נזרך גזי 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 Numbers…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 29-33Verses 29-33 Jeremiah summons the people to lament over the miserable consequences of their rejection of God. In the valley of Hinnom, where lately they offered their innocents, they shall themselves fall before the enemy in such multitudes that burial shall be impossible, and the beasts of the field unmolested shall prey upon their remains. Jeremiah 7:29 The daughter of Zion, defiled by the presence of enemies in her sanctuary, and rejected of God, must…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 29-34Verses 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…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 27-29The 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).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2929. 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."Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 7:29

• Backsliders
• Condescension of God
• Holy Spirit
• Impenitence
• Israel, Prophecies Concerning
• Mourning

In the dictionaries

• Jerusalem
• Baldness
• Hair
• Mirth
• Reject
• Covenant, the New
• Cut; Cutting
• Exodus, the Book of
• Height; Heights
• Jeremiah (2)

Commentaries on Jeremiah 7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings