Jeremiah 7:29

KJV1611 – Modern English

Cut off your hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    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.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Cut off thine hair, O usalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Cut off{H1494} thy hair,{H5145} [O Jerusalem], and cast it away,{H7993} and take up{H5375} a lamentation{H7015} on the bare heights;{H8205} for Jehovah{H3068} hath rejected{H3988} and forsaken{H5203} the generation{H1755} of his wrath.{H5678}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Cut off{H1494}{(H8798)} thine hair{H5145}, O Jerusalem, and cast it away{H7993}{(H8685)}, and take up{H5375}{(H8798)} a lamentation{H7015} on high places{H8205}; for the LORD{H3068} hath rejected{H3988}{(H8804)} and forsaken{H5203}{(H8799)} the generation{H1755} of his wrath{H5678}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Wherfore cut of thine hayre, and cast it awaye, take vp a complaynte in the whole londe: for the LORDE shal cast awaye, and scatre the people, yt he is displeased withall.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Cut off thine heare, O Ierusalem, and cast it away, and take vp a complaint on the hie places: for the Lorde hath reiected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Wherefore cut of thine heere, O Hierusalem, and cast it away, take vp a complaint on hye: for the Lorde hath cast away and forsaken the people that he is displeased withall.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ¶ 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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Cut off your hair, [Jerusalem], and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Cut off thy crown, and cast `it' away, And lift up on high places lamentation, For Jehovah hath rejected, And He leaveth the generation of His wrath.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Cut off thy hair, `O Jerusalem', and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Jehovah hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Cut off thy hair, [O Jerusalem], and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Jehovah hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Let your hair be cut off, O Jerusalem, and let it go, and let a song of grief go up on the open hilltops; for the Lord is turned away from the generation of his wrath and has given them up.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Cut off your hair, [Jerusalem], and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    So, mourn, you people of this nation. Cut off your hair and throw it away. Sing a song of mourning on the hilltops. For the LORD has decided to reject and forsake this generation that has provoked his wrath!’”

Referenced Verses

  • Job 1:20 : 20 Then Job arose, tore his robe, shaved his head, and fell to the ground and worshipped.
  • Mic 1:16 : 16 Make yourself bald, and cut off your hair for your delicate children; enlarge your baldness like the eagle; for they have gone into captivity from you.
  • Jer 6:30 : 30 Rejected silver shall men call them, because the LORD has rejected them.
  • Jer 16:6 : 6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, nor shall anyone mourn for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.
  • Jer 47:5 : 5 Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself?
  • Jer 48:37 : 37 For every head shall be bald and every beard clipped; upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
  • Ezek 19:1 : 1 Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
  • Ezek 28:12 : 12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord GOD; You seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
  • Isa 15:2-3 : 2 He has gone up to Bajith and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall wail over Nebo and over Medeba; on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off. 3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth; on the tops of their houses and in their streets, everyone shall wail, weeping abundantly.
  • Deut 32:5 : 5 They have corrupted themselves, their blemish is not the blemish of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
  • 2 Kgs 17:20 : 20 So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel, afflicted them, and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
  • Jer 9:17-21 : 17 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skilled women, that they may come: 18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. 19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, 'How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.' 20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation. 21 For death has climbed up into our windows, and has entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.
  • Zech 11:8-9 : 8 I also cut off three shepherds in one month. My soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me. 9 Then I said, I will not feed you. Let what dies die, and what is to be cut off, let it be cut off. Let those that remain eat each other's flesh.
  • Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, O generation of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
  • Matt 12:39 : 39 But he answered and said to them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and no sign shall be given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah:
  • Matt 16:4 : 4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. And He left them and departed.
  • Matt 23:36 : 36 Truly I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.
  • Acts 2:40 : 40 And with many other words he testified and encouraged them, saying, 'Save yourselves from this perverse generation.'

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