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Jeremiah summons the people to lament over the miserable consequences of their rejection of God. In the valley of Hinnom, where lately they offered…

Cut off your hair. —Literally, as in 2 Samuel 1:10 and 2 Kings 11:12, your crown or diadem;…

Here again, Jeremiah exhorts his own people to lament; and he uses the feminine gender, as though he called the people the daughter of Sion, or the…

Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away
This supplement is made, because the word is feminine; and therefo…

As a token both of sorrow and of slavery, Jerusalem must be degraded and separated from God, as she had been separated to him.
The heart is t…

Here, he threatens them with punishment.
He prefigures it with a sign: cut off your hair. As in Ezekiel 5:2, you shal…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes