Jeremiah 7:29

Contemporary English Version 1995

Shave your head bald and throw away the hair. Sing a funeral song on top of a barren hill. You people have made me angry, and I have abandoned you.

Cross References

Job 1:20

When Job heard this, he tore his clothes and shaved his head because of his great sorrow. He knelt on the ground, then worshiped God

Micah 1:16

Judah, shave your head as bald as a vulture and start mourning. Your precious children will be dragged off to a foreign country.

Jeremiah 16:6

Rich and poor alike will die and be left unburied. No one will mourn and show their sorrow by cutting themselves or shaving their heads.

Acts 2:40

Peter told them many other things as well. Then he said, “I beg you to save yourselves from what will happen to all these evil people.”

Matthew 23:36

I can promise that you people living today will be punished for all these things!

Matthew 16:4

You want a sign because you are evil and won't believe! But the only sign you will be given is what happened to Jonah. Then Jesus left.

Matthew 12:39

But Jesus replied: You want a sign because you are evil and won't believe! But the only sign you will get is the sign of the prophet Jonah.

Matthew 3:7

Many Pharisees and Sadducees also came to be baptized. But John said to them: You bunch of snakes! Who warned you to run from the coming judgment?

Ezekiel 28:12

Ezekiel, son of man, sing a funeral song for the king of Tyre and tell him I am saying: At one time, you were perfect, intelligent, and good-looking.

Ezekiel 19:1

Ezekiel, sing a funeral song for two of Israel's leaders:

Jeremiah 48:37

The people of Moab mourn on the rooftops and in the streets. Men cut off their beards, people shave their heads; they make cuts on their hands and wear sackcloth. And it's all because I, the Lord, have shattered Moab like a jar that no one wants.

Jeremiah 47:5

The Anakim who survive in Gaza and Ashkelon will mourn for you by shaving their heads and sitting in silence.

2 Kings 17:20

So the Lord turned his back on everyone in Israel and let them be punished and defeated until no one was left.

Deuteronomy 32:5

But you lie and cheat and are unfaithful to him. You have disgraced yourselves and are no longer worthy to be his children.

Isaiah 22:12

When all of this happened, the Lord All-Powerful told you to weep and mourn, to shave your heads, and wear sackcloth.

Jeremiah 3:2

Just try to find one hilltop where you haven't gone to worship other gods by having sex. You sat beside the road like a robber in ambush, except you offered yourself to every passerby. Your sins of unfaithfulness have polluted the land.

Jeremiah 3:21

Listen to the noise on the hilltops! It's the people of Israel, weeping and begging me to answer their prayers. They forgot about me and chose the wrong path.

Jeremiah 9:10

I weep for the pastureland in the hill country. It's so barren and scorched that no one travels there. No cattle can be found there, and birds and wild animals have all disappeared.

Jeremiah 12:7

I loved my people and chose them as my very own. But now I will reject them and hand them over to their enemies.

Jeremiah 14:19

Have you rejected Judah, Lord? Do you hate Jerusalem? Why did you strike down Judah with a fatal wound? We had hoped for peace and a time of healing, but all we got was terror.

Lamentations 5:22

Or do you despise us so much that you don't want us?

Amos 5:1

Listen, nation of Israel, to my mournful message:

Jeremiah 9:16

I'll scatter them in foreign countries that they and their ancestors have never even heard of. Finally, I will send enemy soldiers to kill every last one of them.