Jeremiah 7:29 meaning and explanation

Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’

Jeremiah 7:29, Berean Standard Bible

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Jeremiah is speaking to the people of Judah at the temple gate, and here he turns to a symbolic command. Cutting off the hair was a visible sign of mourning and shame, and the barren heights were places of lament.

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