Jeremiah 7:29 (GNV)

Passage

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

Nearby Context

Jeremiah 7:27 Therefore shalt thou speake al these words vnto them, but they will not heare thee: thou shalt also crie vnto them, but they will not answere thee.

Jeremiah 7:28 But thou shalt say vnto them, This is a nation that heareth not the voice of the Lord their God, nor receiueth discipline: trueth is perished, and is cleane gone out of their mouth.

Jeremiah 7:29 Cut off thine heare, O Ierusalem, and cast it away, and take vp a complaint on the hie places: for the Lord hath reiected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

Jeremiah 7:30 For the children of Iudah haue done euill in my sight, sayth the Lord: they haue set their abominations in the House, whereupon my Name is called, to pollute it.

Jeremiah 7:31 And they haue built the hie place of Topheth, which is in the valley of Ben-Hinnom to burne their sonnes and their daughters in the fire, which I commanded them not, neither came it in mine heart.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "thine", "heare", "ierusalem", "cast", "away", "take", "complaint", and "places". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "thine" and "heare", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 28's "But thou shalt say vnto them This..." into verse 30's "For the children of Iudah haue done...", so "thine" and "heare" belong inside that flow. In Jeremiah context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "thine" and "heare" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.