Jeremiah 7:29 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 7:29-34

Here is, I. A loud call to weeping and mourning. Jerusalem, that had been a joyous city, the joy of the whole earth, must now take up a lamentation on high places (Jer. 7:29), the high places where they had served their idols; there must they now bemoan their misery. In token both of sorrow and slavery, Jerusalem must now cut off her hair and cast it away; the word is peculiar to the hair of the Nazarites, which was the badge and token of their dedication to God, and it is called their crown.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 7:29

Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away ,.... This supplement is made, because the word is feminine; and therefore cannot be directed to the prophet, but to Jerusalem, and its inhabitants; shaving the head is a sign of mourning, Job 1:20 and this is enjoined, to show that there would soon be a reason for it; wherefore it follows: and take up a lamentation on high places : that it might be heard afar off; or because of the idolatry frequently committed in high places. The... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 7:29

Cut off thine hair - נזרך גזי gozzi nizrech , shear thy nazarite. The Nazarite was one who took upon him a particular vow, and separated himself from all worldly connections for a certain time, that he might devote himself without interruption to the service of God; and during all this time no razor was to pass on his head, for none of his hair was to be taken off. After the vow was over, he shaved his head and beard, and returned to society. See Numbers 6:2 ; (note), etc., and the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 7:29

Verse 29 Here again Jeremiah exhorts his own people to lament; and he uses the feminine gender, as though he called the people, the daughter of Sion, or the daughter of Jerusalem. He then, according to a common mode of speaking, calls the whole people a woman. (211) He first bids her to shave off the hair The word נזר, nesar, means the hair, derived from the Nazarites, who allowed their hair to grow: and there may be here a striking allusion to the Nazarites who were sacred to God; as though... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 7:1-34

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 7:1-34

The relations of righteousness and religion. This chapter, as indeed so much other of Jeremiah's prophecies, teaches not a little Concerning this great theme. In this chapter we note how it shows— I. THAT RIGHTEOUSNESS IS THE PRINCIPAL THING . 1. It is God's solemn demand (verse 2). 2. It is God's perpetual demand. See the whole chapter, the whole prophecy. "Amend your ways and your doings" (verse 3) is its constant appeal. 3. At first it was his only... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 7:29

Cut off thine hair . The "daughter of Zion," i . e . the community of Jerusalem, is addressed; this appears from the verb being in the feminine. It is a choice expression which the prophet employs—literally, shear off thy crown (i.e. thy chief ornament). The act was to be a sign of mourning (see Job 1:20 ; Micah 1:16 ). Some think there is also a reference to the vow of the Nazarite (the word for "crown" being here nezer , which is also the word rendered in Authorized Version,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 7:29

Jeremiah 8:3 The harvest of sin. I. WE READ IN OTHER SCRIPTURES OF " THE JOY OF HARVEST ." Such shall be the joy of God's redeemed people when his purposes of grace are fulfilled in and for them. It will be a joy unspeakably glorious. II. BUT HERE WE HAVE PORTRAYED ANOTHER HARVEST —that of sin. Here there is no joy, but bitter lamentation and weeping and woe (Verse 29). We are shown: 1. The seed from which this harvest springs (Verse 30)—the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 7:29-34

Tophet, the greatest of all abominations; the beginning of the Divine retribution. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 7:29-33

Jeremiah summons the people to lament over the miserable consequences of their rejection of God. In the valley of Hinnom, where lately they offered their innocents, they shall themselves fall before the enemy in such multitudes that burial shall be impossible, and the beasts of the field unmolested shall prey upon their remains.Jeremiah 7:29The daughter of Zion, defiled by the presence of enemies in her sanctuary, and rejected of God, must shear off the diadem of her hair, the symbol of her... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 7:29-34

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 7:29

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 7:29

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 7:29

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 7:1-34

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 7:1-34

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 7:29

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 7:29

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 7:29-34

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 7:29-33

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