Verse of the Day
Author Spotlight
Loading featured author...
Report Issue
See a formatting issue or error?
Let us know →
Cut off your hair, [Jerusalem], and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
Verse Takeaways
1
The Symbol of a Broken Vow
Commentators explain that the command for Jerusalem to "cut off thy hair" is a deeply symbolic act. Like a Nazirite who was consecrated to God and had to shave their head if defiled, Jerusalem, once set apart for God, had become so polluted by sin that she had to cast away the symbol of her special status. It's a powerful image of a sacred relationship being broken by unfaithfulness.
See 3 Verse Takeaways
Book Overview
Jeremiah
Author
Audience
Composition
Teaching Highlights
Outline
+ 5 more
See Overview
6
18th Century
Presbyterian
Jeremiah summons the people to lament over the miserable consequences of their rejection of God. In the valley of Hinnom, where lately they offered…
19th Century
Anglican
Cut off your hair. —Literally, as in 2 Samuel 1:10 and 2 Kings 11:12, your crown or diadem;
16th Century
Protestant
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…
Consider supporting our work
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
13th Century
Catholic
Here, he threatens them with punishment.
He prefigures it with a sign: cut off your hair. As in Ezekiel 5:2, you shal…
Get curated content & updates
