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28 You will say to them, ‘This is the nation that did not obey the Lord their God. They did not accept discipline. Truth has disappeared and vanished from their lips.’

29 “Cut off your hair and throw it away. Sing a song of mourning on the bare hills, because in his anger the Lord has rejected and abandoned the people of this generation. 30 The people of Judah have done what I consider evil,” declares the Lord. “They set up their detestable idols in the house that is called by my name. They have made it unclean.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 7:30 Unclean   ” refers to anything that Moses’ Teachings say is not presentable to God.

28 Therefore say to them, ‘This is the nation that has not obeyed the Lord its God or responded to correction.(A) Truth(B) has perished; it has vanished from their lips.

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

The Valley of Slaughter

30 “‘The people of Judah have done evil(F) in my eyes, declares the Lord. They have set up their detestable idols(G) in the house that bears my Name and have defiled(H) it.

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