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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 7:29

Jeremiah 7:29. Cut off thy hair, O Jerusalem This was commonly practised in the time of great sorrow and mourning. And Jerusalem is here addressed as a woman in extreme misery, and exhorted to take upon her the habit and disposition of a mourner, and to bewail the calamities which were fallen upon her. But some have observed that the Hebrew word נזר , which we translate barely the hair, signifies something more, namely, votive, or Nazarite hair; and they think the prophet alludes to the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 7:16-34

No hope for an idolatrous people (7:16-8:3)God now tells Jeremiah that it is useless for him to persist in praying for the safety of the Judeans. They have so given themselves to idolatrous practices that nothing can save them from God’s judgment. Throughout the cities and towns of Judah people worship foreign gods, but in the process they harm themselves (16-19). The harm will be much greater when God’s judgment falls on them (20).While openly worshipping heathen gods, the people also offer... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 7:29

Cut off thine hair. A symbol of mourning. Jerusalem: or, supply "daughter of My People". Compare Jeremiah 8:11 , Jeremiah 8:19 , Jeremiah 8:21 , Jeremiah 8:22 ; Jeremiah 9:1 , Jeremiah 9:7 . The verb is feminine (singular) cast it away. Showing the completeness of the operation. high places. As such. Compare Jeremiah 3:21 . of. Genitive of Relation. App-17 . Compare Romans 8:36 , read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 7:29

"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."Jerusalem is commanded here to go into mourning for herself. When a Nazarite was defiled by touching a corpse, he was required to cut off his hair and to re-consecrate himself; and thus the figure here is that Jerusalem is defiled, God finds no excuse for her; he announces his rejection and forsaking of the Once Chosen race.God did... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 7:29

Jeremiah 7:29. Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem— See Job 1:20. Isa 15:2 and Ezekiel 27:31. Jerusalem is here addressed as a woman under extreme misery, and exhorted to take upon her the habit and disposition of a mourner, and to bewail the calamities which were fallen upon her. Instead of, Take up a lamentation on high places, some read, for the high places; see Jeremiah 7:31-32. To cut off the hair was a mark of extreme grief: the custom was usual among the Pagans also. Achilles, as well as his... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 7:29

29. Jeremiah addresses Jerusalem under the figure of a woman, who, in grief for her lost children, deprives her head of its chief ornament and goes up to the hills to weep (Judges 11:37; Judges 11:38; Isaiah 15:2). hair—flowing locks, like those of a Nazarite. high places—The scene of her idolatries is to be the scene of her mourning (Isaiah 15:2- :). generation of his wrath—the generation with which He is wroth. So Isaiah 15:2- :; "the people of My wrath." read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 7:29

The people were to cut off their hair as a sign of grief."The command to cut off the ’hair’ (lit., ’crown’ . . .) is in the feminine in Hebrew, showing that the city (cf. Jeremiah 6:23 -’O Daughter of Zion’) is meant. The charge stems from the fact that the Nazirite’s hair was the mark of his separation to God (Numbers 6:5). When he was ceremonially defiled, he had to shave his head. So Jerusalem because of her corruption must do likewise. Her mourning is because the Lord has cast her off.... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 7:29-34

Sin in the Valley of Hinnom 7:29-34Jeremiah proceeded to picture the horrible judgment he had predicted in Jeremiah 7:20. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 7:1-34

1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence.4. God, said the false prophets, will never allow His Temple to be overthrown: cp. Micah 3:11.The temple, etc.] The threefold repetition suggests ’the energy of iteration that only belongs to Eastern fanatics’ (Stanley, ’Jewish Church,’ ii, 438).5-7. Their tenure of the Temple is conditional on obedience to the covenant made by God with their fathers. 10. We are delivered] By the discharge of this formality we are set free for a return to... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 7:29

(29) Cut off thine hair.—Literally, as in 2 Samuel 1:10; 2 Kings 11:12, thy crown or diadem; but the verb determines the meaning. The word Netzer (“consecration” in the Authorised version) is applied to the unshorn locks of the Nazarite (Numbers 6:7), and from it he took his name. As the Nazarite was to shave his head if he came in contact with a corpse, as cutting the hair close was generally among Semitic races the sign of extremest sorrow (Job 1:20; Micah 1:16), so Jerusalem was to sit as a... read more