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Jeremiah 7:29

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.’

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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.

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.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
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 →

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Job 1:20Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,Jeremiah 6:30They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”Micah 1:16Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in mourning for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they will go from you into exile.Jeremiah 16:6“Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned, nor will anyone cut himself or shave his head for them.Amos 5:1Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:Jeremiah 9:10I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.Matthew 23:36Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.Zechariah 11:8–9And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.Jeremiah 48:37For every head is shaved and every beard is clipped; on every hand is a gash, and around every waist is sackcloth.Isaiah 15:2–3Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.Matthew 12:39Jesus replied, “A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.Ezekiel 28:12“Son of man, take up a lament for the king of Tyre and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.Acts 2:40With many other words he testified, and he urged them, “Be saved from this corrupt generation.”Deuteronomy 32:5His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.2 Kings 17:20So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel. He afflicted them and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, until He had banished them from His presence.Ezekiel 19:1“As for you, take up a lament for the princes of IsraelJeremiah 9:17–21This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.Jeremiah 47:5The people of Gaza will shave their heads in mourning; Ashkelon will be silenced. O remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourself?

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About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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