29 Cut off the hair of your sacred vow[a](A) and throw it away. Raise up a dirge on the barren heights,(B) for the Lord has rejected and abandoned the generation under His wrath.(C)

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  1. Jeremiah 7:29 Lit off your consecration

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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29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

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18 They will put on sackcloth,
and horror will overwhelm them.
Shame will cover all their faces,
and all their heads will be bald.(A)

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18 They will put on sackcloth(A)
    and be clothed with terror.(B)
Every face will be covered with shame,
    and every head will be shaved.(C)

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18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

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16 Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair(A)
in sorrow for your precious children;
make yourselves as bald as an eagle,
for they have been taken from you into exile.(B)

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16 Shave(A) your head in mourning
    for the children in whom you delight;
make yourself as bald as the vulture,
    for they will go from you into exile.(B)

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16 Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.

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