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Jer_7:29 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.
Ver. 29. Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem.] In token of greatest sorrow and servitude. {Job_1:20 Isa_15:2 Eze_27:31} Tu, dum servus es, comam nutris? said he in Aristophanes. The word here rendered "hair" is nezir, which signifieth a crown, and there hence the Nazarites had their name, {Num_6:2; Num_6:5} intimating thereby haply that their votaries should be as little accepted as were their sacrifices. {Jer_7:21}
And forsaken the generation of his wrath.] Who are elsewhere called "the people of his curse," and "vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction."