Jeremiah 7:29

JEHOVAH’S REJECTION OF THE NATION, Jeremiah 7:29-34.

29. Hair Here spoken of as a crown, the literal meaning of the original being diadem. See Numbers 6:7. English Version, “consecration.” The word was originally applied to the diadem of the high priest, (Exodus 29:6,) and, as Keil thinks, was transferred to the hair because the uncut hair of the Nazarite was the mark of his consecration to the Lord, expressing what the diadem of the high priest expressed. As the defiled Nazarite should cut off the hair of his head because it had ceased to be a symbol of his peculiar and intimate relation to God, so Jerusalem is called upon to shear off her hair for the same reason. No longer is she the consecrated of the Lord. She has become defiled; hence cast off and abandoned.