THEOSISJeremiah 7:29Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Cut off thy hair, and cast it away: and take up a lamentation on high: for the Lord hath rejected, and forsaken the generation of his wrath,
גָּזִּ֤י נִזְרֵךְ֙ וְֽהַשְׁלִ֔יכִי וּשְׂאִ֥י עַל־שְׁפָיִ֖ם קִינָ֑ה כִּ֚י מָאַ֣ס יְהוָ֔ה וַיִּטֹּ֖שׁ אֶת־דּ֥וֹר עֶבְרָתֽוֹ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Job 1:20Then Job rose up, and rent his garments, and having shaven his head, fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
- Mic 1:16Make thee bald, and be polled for thy delicate children: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle: for they are carried into captivity from thee.
- Jer 6:30Call them reprobate silver, for the Lord hath rejected them.
- Jer 16:6Both the great and the little shall die in this land: they shall not be buried nor lamented, and men shall not cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.
- Jer 48:37For every head shall be bald, and every beard shall be shaven: all hands shall be tied together, and upon every back there shall be haircloth.
- Jer 9:17Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, and let them come: and send to them that are wise women, and let them make haste:
- Jer 9:21For death is come up through our windows, it is entered into our houses to destroy the children from without, the young men from the streets.
- Acts 2:40And with very many other words did he testify and exhort them, saying: Save yourselves from this perverse generation.