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.’

30 For the sons of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight,” declares the Lord. “They have (D)put their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it. 31 They have (E)built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of Ben-hinnom, to (F)burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I (G)did not command, and it did not come into My [b]mind.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 7:29 Lit your crown
  2. Jeremiah 7:31 Lit heart

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