Verse 29

Jeremiah 7:29

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29 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.

Original Language Text

hebrew

גָּזִּ֤י נִזְרֵ/ךְ֙ וְֽ/הַשְׁלִ֔יכִי וּ/שְׂאִ֥י עַל שְׁפָיִ֖ם קִינָ֑ה כִּ֚י מָאַ֣ס יְהוָ֔ה וַ/יִּטֹּ֖שׁ אֶת דּ֥וֹר עֶבְרָתֽ/וֹ

English Translation

Cut off your hair and throw it away, and raise a lamentation on the bare heights, for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.

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Chapter 7 Context

1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, Focus ↗

2 Take your place in the doorway of the Lord's house, and give out this word there, and say, Give ear... Focus ↗

3 The Lord of armies, the God (Elohim) of Israel, says, Let your ways and your doings be changed for t... Focus ↗

4 Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of t... Focus ↗

5 For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions... Focus ↗

6 If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to th... Focus ↗

7 Then I will let you go on living in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers in the past... Focus ↗

8 See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit. Focus ↗

9 Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oat... Focus ↗

10 And come and take your place before me in this house, which is named by my name, and say, We have be... Focus ↗

11 Has this house, which is named by my name, become a hole of thieves to you? Truly I, even I, have se... Focus ↗

12 But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I put my name at first, and see what I did to it b... Focus ↗

13 And now, because you have done all these works, says the Lord, and I sent my word to you, getting up... Focus ↗

14 For this reason I will do to the house which is named by my name, and in which you have put your fai... Focus ↗

15 And I will send you away from before my face, as I have sent away all your brothers, even all the se... Focus ↗

16 And as for you (Jeremiah), make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them, make... Focus ↗

17 Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? Focus ↗

18 The children go for wood, the fathers get the fire burning, the women are working the paste to make... Focus ↗

19 Are they moving me to wrath? says the Lord; are they not moving themselves to their shame? Focus ↗

20 So this is what the Lord God (Elohim) has said: See, my wrath and my passion will be let loose on th... Focus ↗

21 These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God (Elohim) of Israel: Put your burned offerings wit... Focus ↗

22 For I said nothing to your fathers, and gave them no orders, on the day when I took them out of Egyp... Focus ↗

23 But this was the order I gave them, saying, Give ear to my voice, and I will be your God (Elohim), a... Focus ↗

24 But they took no note and did not give ear, but were guided by the thoughts and the pride of their e... Focus ↗

25 From the day when your fathers came out of Egypt till this day, I have sent my servants the prophets... Focus ↗

26 But still they took no note and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff, doing worse tha... Focus ↗

27 And you are to say all these words to them, but they will not give ear to you: you will send out you... Focus ↗

28 And you are to say to them, This is the nation which has not given ear to the voice of their God (El... Focus ↗

29 Let your hair be cut off, O Jerusalem, and let it go, and let a song of grief go up on the open hill...

30 For the children of Judah have done what is evil in my eyes, says the Lord: they have put their disg... Focus ↗

31 And they have put up the high place of Topheth in the valley of the son of Hinnom, burning their son... Focus ↗

32 For this cause, the days are coming, says the Lord, when it will no longer be named Topheth, or, The... Focus ↗

33 And the bodies of this people will be food for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth;... Focus ↗

34 And in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, I will put an end to the laughing voices,... Focus ↗

Verse Information

Book: Jeremiah
Chapter: Chapter 7 (34 verses)
Version: Bible in Basic English

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