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Jeremiah 7:29

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Cut off the hair of your sacred vow  , and throw it away. Raise up a dirge on the barren heights,  for the Lord has rejected and abandoned the generation under his wrath.”

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Then Job stood up, tore  his robe, and shaved  his head. He fell to the ground and worshipped,


Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in sorrow for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they have been taken from you into exile.


They are called rejected silver, for the Lord has rejected them.


‘Both great and small will die in this land without burial. No lament will be made for them, nor will anyone cut himself or  shave his head for them.


With many other words he testified and strongly urged them, saying, ‘Be saved from this corrupt  generation! ’


Truly I tell you, all these things will come on this generation.


An evil and adulterous generation demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of   Jonah.’   Then he left them and went away.


He answered them,  ‘An evil and adulterous generation demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.


When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees  coming to his baptism, he said to them, ‘Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?


‘Son of man, lament  for the king of Tyre and say to him, “This is what the Lord God says: You were the seal  of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.


‘As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel,


Indeed, every head is bald and every beard is chopped short.  On every hand is a gash  and sackcloth  round the waist.


Baldness  is coming to Gaza; Ashkelon will become silent. Remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourself?


So the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel, punished them, and handed them over to plunderers until he had banished them from his presence.


His people have acted corruptly towards him; this is their defect   #– #they are not his children but a devious and crooked generation.


On that day the Lord God of Armies called for weeping,  for wailing, for shaven heads, and for the wearing of sackcloth.


Look to the barren heights  and see. Where have you not been immoral? You sat waiting for them beside the roads like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.


A sound is heard on the barren heights: the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, for they have perverted their way; they have forgotten the  Lord their God.


I will raise weeping and a lament over the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness grazing land, for they have been so scorched that no one passes through. The sound of cattle is no longer heard. From the birds of the sky to the animals, everything has fled #– #they have gone away.


I have abandoned my house; I have deserted my inheritance. I have handed the love of my life over to her enemies.


Have you completely rejected Judah? Do you detest   Zion? Why do you strike us with no hope of healing for us? We hoped for peace, but there was nothing good; for a time of healing, but there was only terror.


unless you have completely rejected us and are intensely angry with us.


Listen to this message that I am singing for you, a lament,  house of Israel:


I will scatter them among the nations  that they and their ancestors have not known. I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.’





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