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

And in this land shall they die, old and young, and shall not be buried: no man shall beweep them, no man shall clip or shave himself for them.

Baldness is come upon Gaza. Ashkelon with her other valleys shall keep her peace. How long wilt thou slay,

All heads shall be shaven, and all beards clipped off: all hands bound, and all loins girded about with sack cloth.

Then Job stood up, and rent his clothes, shaved his head, fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

They went up to the idols' house, even to Dibon to the high places, to weep for Nebo; and Moab did mourn for Medeba. All their heads were bald, and all their beards shaven.

Make thee bald, and shave thee, because of thy tender children: Make thee clean bald as an Eagle, for they shall be carried away captive from thee.

And take

Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, "Look that ye call for mourning wives, and send for wise women: that they come shortly,

But mourn thou for the princes of Israel,

"Thou son of man, make a lamentable complaint over the king of Tyre, and tell him, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Thou art a seal of a likeness, full of wisdom and excellent beauty.

For

Therefore shall they be called reprobate silver, because the LORD hath cast them out."

Therefore the LORD cast up all the seed of Israel and vexed them and delivered them into the hands of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

Three shepherds destroyed I in one month, for I might not away with them, neither had they any delight in me.

Generation

The froward and overthwart generation hath marred themselves to himward, and are not his sons for their deformities' sake.

When he saw many of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, "O generation of vipers, who hath taught you to flee from the vengeance to come?

He answered them saying, "The evil and adulterous generation seeketh a sign; but there shall no sign be given to them, but the sign of the prophet Jonah:

The forward nation, and adulterous, seeketh a sign: and there shall none other sign be given unto them, but the sign of the prophet Jonah." So left he them and departed.

Verily I say unto you, all these things shall light upon this generation.

And with many other words bare he witness, and exhorted them saying, "Save yourselves from this untoward generation."