Jeremiah 7:29

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Cut

And take

Jeremiah 9:17

Ezekiel 19:1

Ezekiel 28:12

For

Jeremiah 6:30

2 Kings 17:20

Zechariah 11:8

Generation

Bible References

Cut

Both great men and small will die in this land; they will not be buried, they will not be lamented, nor will anyone gash himself or shave his head for them.

“Baldness has come upon Gaza;

Ashkelon has been ruined.

O remnant of their valley,
How long will you gash yourself?

For every head is bald and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins.

Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head, and he fell to the ground and worshiped.

They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, even to the high places to weep.
Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba;
Everyone’s head is bald and every beard is cut off.

Make yourself bald and cut off your hair,
Because of the children of your delight;
Extend your baldness like the eagle,
For they will go from you into exile.

And take

Thus says the Lord of hosts,
“Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come;
And send for the

wailing women, that they may come!

“As for you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel

“Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord God,
“You had the seal of perfection,
Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

For

They call them rejected silver,

Because the Lord has rejected them.

The Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them out of His sight.

Then I annihilated the three shepherds in one month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also was weary of me.

Generation

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They have acted corruptly toward Him,

They are not His children, because of their defect;

But are a perverse and crooked generation.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation craves for a sign; and yet no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet;

An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and a sign will not be given it, except the sign of Jonah.”

And He left them and went away.

Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.

And with many other words he solemnly testified and kept on exhorting them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation!”