Make thee bald, &c. The signs of mourning. Compare Job 1:20; Isaiah 15:2; Isaiah 22:12.Jeremiah 7:29; Jeremiah 16:6; Jeremiah 47:5; Jeremiah 48:37). This is addressed to Judah. It was forbidden under the law (Deuteronomy 14:1). Judah had become as the heathen: let them mourn as the heathen.
children. sons.