29 (A)Cut off [a]your hair and throw it away,
And (B)take up a song of mourning on the bare heights;
For the Lord has (C)rejected and forsaken
The generation of His wrath.’

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 7:29 Lit your crown

29 “‘Cut off(A) your hair and throw it away; take up a lament(B) on the barren heights, for the Lord has rejected and abandoned(C) this generation that is under his wrath.

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16 Even when their survivors (A)escape, they will be on the mountains like (B)doves of the valleys, all of them (C)moaning, each over his own wrongdoing. 17 All (D)hands will hang limp, and all [a]knees will drip with water. 18 They will (E)put on sackcloth and (F)shuddering will overwhelm them; and shame will be on all faces, and a [b](G)bald patch on all their heads.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 7:17 Heb idiom meaning to wet oneself
  2. Ezekiel 7:18 I.e., shaved as a sign of mourning

16 The fugitives(A) who escape
    will flee to the mountains.
Like doves(B) of the valleys,
    they will all moan,
    each for their own sins.(C)
17 Every hand will go limp;(D)
    every leg will be wet with urine.(E)
18 They will put on sackcloth(F)
    and be clothed with terror.(G)
Every face will be covered with shame,
    and every head will be shaved.(H)

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