Verse 29

Jeremiah 7:29

King James Version

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29 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.

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 that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Focus ↗

2 Stand in the gate of the LORD’S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the L... Focus ↗

3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God (Elohim) of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I wil... Focus ↗

4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of t... Focus ↗

5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man... Focus ↗

6 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this p... Focus ↗

7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and... Focus ↗

8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. Focus ↗

9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk... Focus ↗

10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to... Focus ↗

11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have... Focus ↗

12 But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I di... Focus ↗

13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early... Focus ↗

14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the plac... Focus ↗

15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ep... Focus ↗

16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make inter... Focus ↗

17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? Focus ↗

18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make... Focus ↗

19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of thei... Focus ↗

20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this plac... Focus ↗

21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God (Elohim) of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifi... Focus ↗

22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land... Focus ↗

23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God (Elohim), and ye shal... Focus ↗

24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of... Focus ↗

25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent u... Focus ↗

26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than... Focus ↗

27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt... Focus ↗

28 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God (Elo... Focus ↗

29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the...

30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominatio... Focus ↗

31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn... Focus ↗

32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the va... Focus ↗

33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the... Focus ↗

34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of... Focus ↗

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Book: Jeremiah
Chapter: Chapter 7 (34 verses)
Version: King James Version

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