Verse 29

Jeremiah 7:29

Literal Standard Version

29 Cut off your crown, and cast it away, || And lift up lamentation on high places, || For YHWH has rejected, || And He leaves 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 has been to Jeremiah from YHWH, saying, Focus ↗
2 “Stand in the gate of the house of YHWH, and you have proclaimed this word there, and have said, Hea... Focus ↗
3 Thus said YHWH of Hosts, God (Elohim) of Israel: “Amend your ways, and your doings, || And I cause y... Focus ↗
4 Do not trust for yourselves || To the words of falsehood, saying, || The temple of YHWH! The temple... Focus ↗
5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, || If you thoroughly do judgment || Between a... Focus ↗
6 You do not oppress sojourner, fatherless, and widow, || And innocent blood is not shed in this place... Focus ↗
7 Then I have caused you to dwell in this place, || In the land that I gave to your fathers, || From a... Focus ↗
8 Behold, you are trusting for yourselves || On the words of falsehood, so as not to profit. Focus ↗
9 Stealing, murdering, and committing adultery, || And swearing to falsehood, and giving incense to Ba... Focus ↗
10 And you have come in and stood before Me, || In this house on which My Name is called, || And have s... Focus ↗
11 Has this house, || On which My Name is called, || Been a den of burglars in your eyes? Even I, behol... Focus ↗
12 “But go now to My place that is in Shiloh, || Where I caused My Name to dwell at first, || And see t... Focus ↗
13 And now, because of your doing all these works,” || A declaration of YHWH, || “And I speak to you, r... Focus ↗
14 I also have done to the house on which My Name is called, || In which you are trusting, || And to th... Focus ↗
15 And I have cast you from before My face, || As I have cast out all your brothers, || The whole seed... Focus ↗
16 And you do not pray for this people, || Nor lift up crying and prayer for them, || Nor intercede wit... Focus ↗
17 Are you not seeing what they are doing || In cities of Judah, and in streets of Jerusalem? Focus ↗
18 The sons are gathering wood, || And the fathers are causing the fire to burn, || And the women are k... Focus ↗
19 Are they provoking Me to anger?” A declaration of YHWH, “Is it not themselves, || For the shame of t... Focus ↗
20 Therefore, thus said Lord YHWH: “Behold, My anger and My fury is poured out on this place, || On man... Focus ↗
21 Thus said YHWH of Hosts, God (Elohim) of Israel: “Add your burnt-offerings to your sacrifices and ea... Focus ↗
22 For I did not speak with your fathers, || Nor did I command them in the day of My bringing them out... Focus ↗
23 But this thing I commanded them, saying, || Listen to My voice, || And I have been to you for God (E... Focus ↗
24 And they have not listened, nor inclined their ear, || And they walk in the counsels, || And in the... Focus ↗
25 Even from the day when your fathers || Went out of the land of Egypt until this day, || I send all M... Focus ↗
26 And they have not listened to Me, || Nor inclined their ear—and they harden their neck, || They have... Focus ↗
27 And you have spoken all these words to them, || And they do not listen to you, || And you have calle... Focus ↗
28 And you have said to them: This is the nation that has not listened, || To the voice of its God (Elo... Focus ↗
29 Cut off your crown, and cast it away, || And lift up lamentation on high places, || For YHWH has rej...
30 For the sons of Judah || Have done evil in My eyes,” || A declaration of YHWH, || “They have set the... Focus ↗
31 And have built the high places of Tophet, || That are in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, || To burn... Focus ↗
32 Therefore, behold, days are coming,” || A declaration of YHWH, || “And it is no longer said, The Top... Focus ↗
33 And the carcass of this people has been for food || To a bird of the heavens, and to a beast of the... Focus ↗
34 And I have caused to cease from cities of Judah, || And from streets of Jerusalem, || The voice of j... Focus ↗