Jeremiah 7:29 (LSB)

Passage

Cut off your hair and cast it away, And lift up a funeral lamentation on the bare heights; For Yahweh has rejected and abandoned The generation of His wrath.’

Nearby Context

Jeremiah 7:27 “You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you; and you shall call to them, but they will not answer you.

Jeremiah 7:28 You shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that did not listen to the voice of Yahweh their God or receive discipline; truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.

Jeremiah 7:29 Cut off your hair and cast it away, And lift up a funeral lamentation on the bare heights; For Yahweh has rejected and abandoned The generation of His wrath.’

Jeremiah 7:30 For the sons of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight,” declares Yahweh, “they have set their detestable things in the house, which is called by My name, to defile it.

Jeremiah 7:31 They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, and it did not come upon My heart.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "hair", "cast", "away", "lift", "funeral", "lamentation", "bare", and "heights". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "hair" and "cast", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 28's "You shall say to them This is..." into verse 30's "For the sons of Judah have done...", so "hair" and "cast" 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 "hair" and "cast" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.