Jeremiah 7:29

²⁷ When you tell them all these things, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer.

²⁸ Therefore 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.

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.’

³⁰ For 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.

³¹ They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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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.’
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.
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.
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.
BLB: Cut off your consecrated hair and cast [it] away, and take up a lamentation on the barren heights; for YHWH has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath!’

ÅB: Klipp ditt hår av[^1] og kast det bort og stem i en klagesang på de bare hauger! For Herren har forkastet og støtt fra seg den slekt som han er vred på.
OTB: Kutt av ditt hår og kast det bort; ta opp en klagesang på de øde høydene, for Herren har forkastet og forlatt sin vredes generasjon.
B1930: Klipp ditt hår av og kast det bort og stem i en klagesang på de bare hauger! For Herren har forkastet og støtt fra sig den ætt som han er vred på. / < Jerusalem.>

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

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