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, Numbers 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."