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“Tell them all this, but do not expect them to listen. Shout out your warnings, but do not expect them to respond. 28Say to them, ‘This is the nation whose people will not obey the Lord their God and who refuse to be taught. Truth has vanished from among them; it is no longer heard on their lips. Shave your head in mourning, and weep alone on the mountains. For the Lord has rejected and forsaken this generation that has provoked his fury.’ 30“The people of Judah have sinned before my very eyes,” says the Lord. “They have set up their abominable idols right in the Temple that bears my name, defiling it. 31They have built pagan shrines at Topheth, the garbage dump in the valley of Ben-Hinnom, and there they burn their sons and daughters in the fire. I have never commanded such a horrible deed; it never even crossed my mind to command such a thing!

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 16:6Both the great and the lowly will die in this land. No one will bury them or mourn for them. Their friends will not cut themselves in sorrow or shave their heads in sadness.
• Jeremiah 47:5Gaza will be humiliated, its head shaved bald; Ashkelon will lie silent. You remnant from the Mediterranean coast, how long will you cut yourselves in mourning?
• Jeremiah 48:37The people shave their heads and beards in mourning. They slash their hands and put on clothes made of burlap.
• Job 1:20Job stood up and tore his robe in grief. Then he shaved his head and fell to the ground to worship.
• Isaiah 15:2Your people will go to their temple in Dibon to mourn. They will go to their sacred shrines to weep. They will wail for the fate of Nebo and Medeba, shaving their heads in sorrow and cutting off their beards.
• Micah 1:16Oh, people of Judah, shave your heads in sorrow, for the children you love will be snatched away. Make yourselves as bald as a vulture, for your little ones will be exiled to distant lands.
• Jeremiah 9:17This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: “Consider all this, and call for the mourners. Send for the women who mourn at funerals.
• Ezekiel 19:1“Sing this funeral song for the princes of Israel:
• Ezekiel 28:12“Son of man, sing this funeral song for the king of Tyre. Give him this message from the Sovereign Lord: “You were the model of perfection, full of wisdom and exquisite in beauty.
• Jeremiah 6:30I will label them ‘Rejected Silver,’ for I, the Lord, am discarding them.”
• 2 Kings 17:20The Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel. He punished them by handing them over to their attackers until he had banished Israel from his presence.
• Zechariah 11:8I got rid of their three evil shepherds in a single month. But I became impatient with these sheep, and they hated me, too.
• Deuteronomy 32:5“But they have acted corruptly toward him; when they act so perversely, are they really his children? They are a deceitful and twisted generation.
• Matthew 3:7But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to watch him baptize, he denounced them. “You brood of snakes!” he exclaimed. “Who warned you to flee the coming wrath?
• Matthew 12:39But Jesus replied, “Only an evil, adulterous generation would demand a miraculous sign; but the only sign I will give them is the sign of the prophet Jonah.
• Matthew 16:4Only an evil, adulterous generation would demand a miraculous sign, but the only sign I will give them is the sign of the prophet Jonah.” Then Jesus 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