Jeremiah 7:29

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Cut off your hair and throw it away, and raise a lament on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and abandoned the generation of his wrath.

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  • Job 1:20 : 20 At this, Job got up, tore his robe, shaved his head, and fell to the ground in worship.
  • Mic 1:16 : 16 Shave your head bald and cut off your hair because of your precious children. Make yourself as bald as the eagle, for they have been taken away from you into exile.
  • Jer 6:30 : 30 They are called rejected silver, for the LORD has rejected them.
  • Jer 16:6 : 6 Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned; no one will cut themselves or shave their heads for them in mourning.
  • Jer 47:5 : 5 Gaza is shaven bare; Ashkelon is silenced. You remnant of their valley, how long will you cut yourselves in mourning?
  • Jer 48:37 : 37 Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off, gashes are on all their hands, and sackcloth is wrapped around their waists.
  • Ezek 19:1 : 1 Now you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel.
  • Ezek 28:12 : 12 Son of man, take up a lament concerning the king of Tyre, and say to him, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
  • Isa 15:2-3 : 2 They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba. Every head is shaved, and every beard is cut off. 3 In its streets, they wear sackcloth. On its rooftops and public squares, everyone wails, falling down in tears.
  • Deut 32:5 : 5 They have acted corruptly toward Him; they are not His children because of their defect—a crooked and perverse generation.
  • 2 Kgs 17:20 : 20 Therefore the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel, afflicted them, and handed them over to plunderers until He had cast them out of His presence.
  • Jer 9:17-21 : 17 'Let them come quickly and lift up a lament over us so that our eyes may overflow with tears and our eyelids stream with water.' 18 'For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: “How devastated we are! We are utterly ashamed, for we have left the land and our dwellings have been cast off.”' 19 'Hear the word of the Lord, you women; let your ears receive the words of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail and one another to mourn.' 20 'For death has climbed in through our windows and entered our fortresses, cutting off children from the streets and young men from the public squares.' 21 Speak, this is what the Lord declares: The dead bodies of people will fall like dung on the open field, like bundles left behind by the reaper, with no one to gather them.
  • Zech 11:8-9 : 8 In one month I disposed of the three shepherds. My soul was impatient with them, and their soul also loathed me. 9 Then I said, 'I will not shepherd you any longer. Let the dying die, and let the perishing perish. Let those who are left eat one another’s flesh.'
  • Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, 'You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
  • Matt 12:39 : 39 But He answered them, 'An evil and unfaithful generation demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.'
  • Matt 16:4 : 4 An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet." Then He left them and went away.
  • Matt 23:36 : 36 Truly, I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.
  • Acts 2:40 : 40 With many other words he warned them, and he kept urging them, 'Be saved from this corrupt generation.'

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  • 28So you shall say to them, 'This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God or accept discipline; truth has perished and is cut off from their lips.'

  • 30For the people of Judah have done evil in my sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears my name to defile it.

  • Jer 15:5-6
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    5Who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will turn aside to ask how you are?

    6'You have rejected Me,' declares the LORD. 'You keep going backward. So I have stretched out My hand against you and destroyed you; I am tired of relenting.'

  • Lam 2:6-7
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    6He has violently done away with his dwelling, as if it were a garden, destroying his appointed meeting place. The LORD has caused Zion to forget its appointed times and Sabbaths. In his fierce anger, he has despised king and priest alike.

    7The Lord has rejected his altar and disowned his sanctuary. He has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces. They raised their voices in the house of the LORD as on a day of appointed festival.

  • 8Be warned, Jerusalem, or I will become alienated from you and make you a desolation, a land uninhabited.

  • 39therefore I will surely forget you and cast you out of My presence along with the city I gave to you and your fathers.

  • 8Therefore, the wrath of the LORD fell upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He made them an object of horror, devastation, and scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.

  • Jer 44:6-7
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    6So my fury and my anger poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, making them a desolate ruin, as they are today.

    7Now therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves, cutting off from Judah man, woman, child, and infant, leaving yourselves without any remnant?

  • 8For this, put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.

  • 16Shave your head bald and cut off your hair because of your precious children. Make yourself as bald as the eagle, for they have been taken away from you into exile.

  • 12In that day the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, called you to weeping, wailing, shaving your heads, and wearing sackcloth.

  • 8Jerusalem has sinned greatly and so has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.

  • 18They will put on sackcloth, and horror will cover them. Shame will be on every face, and every head will be shaved.

  • 37Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off, gashes are on all their hands, and sackcloth is wrapped around their waists.

  • 27The LORD said, 'I will also remove Judah from my presence as I removed Israel. I will reject this city, Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple about which I said, ‘My name shall be there.’'

  • 7then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them, and I will reject this temple I have consecrated for My name. Israel will then become a proverb and an object of ridicule among all peoples.

  • 17Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed for Jacob that his neighbors become his foes; Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

  • 14The Lord has given a command concerning you, Nineveh: 'Your name will no longer be perpetuated. Out of the house of your gods I will destroy the carved image and the cast idol. I will prepare your grave, for you are vile.'

  • 17Therefore, this is what the Lord says: 'Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, your sons and daughters will fall by the sword, your land will be divided up with a measuring line, and you yourself will die in a polluted land. Israel will surely go into exile away from their homeland.'

  • 20then I will uproot you from My land that I have given you, and I will reject this temple I have consecrated for My name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.

  • 9"This is what the LORD says: 'In this way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

  • 8For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their speech and actions are against the LORD, challenging His glorious presence.

  • 9In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places of the wooded heights and hilltops that were abandoned because of the Israelites, and there will be desolation.

  • 14The elders and dignitaries are the head; the prophets who teach lies are the tail.

  • 7In this place, I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies and at the hands of those who seek their lives. I will give their dead bodies as food to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the earth.

  • 6For this is what the Lord of Hosts says: Cut down trees and build a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; it is filled with oppression.

  • 14Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will your wicked thoughts lodge within you?

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    3For this is what the LORD says to the people of Judah and Jerusalem: Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among thorns.

    4Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskin of your hearts, men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Otherwise, my wrath will break out like a fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your wicked deeds.

  • 10Go up among her rows and destroy them, but do not completely finish them off. Remove her branches, for they do not belong to the Lord.

  • 17Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

  • 37You will also leave that place with your hands on your head, for the LORD has rejected those you trust; you will not prosper through them.

  • 19Have You utterly rejected Judah? Does Your soul loathe Zion? Why have You struck us so that we cannot be healed? We hoped for peace, but no good has come; for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

  • 20Therefore the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel, afflicted them, and handed them over to plunderers until He had cast them out of His presence.

  • 12Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple will become a high place overgrown with thickets.

  • 22Unless you have utterly rejected us and are exceedingly angry with us.

  • 25This is your lot, the portion measured for you from Me,” declares the LORD, “because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.

  • 7Your land is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; in your presence, foreigners devour your fields. It is desolate, as if overthrown by strangers.

  • 9He said to me, 'The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of injustice. They say, "The LORD has abandoned the land, and the LORD does not see."'

  • 14Therefore, hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.

  • 31They will shave their heads for you and wrap themselves in sackcloth. In deep anguish and bitter mourning, they will weep for you.

  • 8Mourn like a young woman dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.

  • 37The peaceful pastures will be silent because of the LORD's fierce anger.

  • 10This is what the LORD says about this people: They love to wander; they do not restrain their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; now He will remember their guilt and punish their sins.

  • 16I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their evil in forsaking Me, burning incense to other gods, and worshiping the works of their own hands.

  • 13Woe to them because they have strayed from me! Destruction to them because they have rebelled against me! I long to redeem them, but they speak lies about me.