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Cut off thine hair; it was a usual token of sorrow among the Jews to cut off the hair, Job_1:20 Isa_15:2 Mic_1:16. But here he speaketh either,
1. To Jeremiah; for
O Jerusalem is not in the text; or,
2. To the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and so speaks to them as a woman, whose hair is for an ornament, 1Co_11:15. Therefore this must needs signify a higher degree of sorrow. Cutting the hair among the ancients did signify,
1. Mourning.
2. Bondage. For the cutting off the hair in servants was a token of subjection; so that this speaks Jerusalem’s mournful condition in her captivity.
Cast it away; it is not to be reserved, as sometimes men and women both do for some use; but to be cast away, and as a thing good for nought. And thus it may agree with the church’s lamentation, Lam_5:16; for it is not here exhorted to as a token of repentance, but as a threatening of judgments.
Take up a lamentation on high places: see Jer_3:21. Lift up thy voice on high in lamentation, when thou hast thine eye or thoughts upon the high places where thou wentest a whoring from me, for which thou now goest into captivity.
The generation of his wrath; or, of his overrunning anger, as some render it, i.e. with whom he is extremely vexed, this present generation, that by their provocations have brought themselves under his wrath, Jer_7:18,20, a generation destined to the wrath of God, called elsewhere the people of his curse, Isa_34:5, and such as the apostle calls vessels of wrath, Rom_9:22, so far as it concerns the phrase.