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 the great and the small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, nor shall men mourn for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.

Baldness has come on Gaza. Ashkelon is cut off with the rest of their valley. How long will you cut yourself?

For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped. On all the hands shall be cuttings, and on the loins sackcloth.

And Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground and worshiped.

One has gone up to the house, even to Dibon, the high places, to weep. Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba; baldness shall be on all their heads, every beard cut off.

Make yourself bald, and cut off your hair for the sons of your delight; make your baldness large like the eagle; for they go into exile from you.

And take

So says Jehovah of Hosts, Think carefully, and call for the wailers, that they may come. And send for the wise women, that they may come;

And take up a weeping for the rulers of Israel,

Son of man, lift up a lament over the king of Tyre, and say to him, So says the Lord Jehovah: You seal the measure, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

For

Reprobate silver they call them, because Jehovah has rejected them.

And Jehovah rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until He had cast them out of His sight.

I also cut off three shepherds in one month; and my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also despised me.

Generation

They have corrupted themselves: they are not His sons; it is their blemish; they are a crooked and perverse generation.

But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said to them, O generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

But He answered and said to them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign. And there shall be no sign given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign. And there shall no sign be given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah. And He left them and went away.

Truly I say to you, All these things shall come on this generation.

And with many other words he earnestly testified and exhorted, saying, Be saved from this perverse generation.