Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 7:29

29 Cut off thine hair, O Ierusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places: for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generatin of his wrath.

It was an usual token of sorrow among the Iews 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 and so speaks to them, as a Woman, whose hair is for an ornament, 1 Cor. 11.15. therefore this must needs signifie an higher degree of Sorrow, cutting the hair among the Ancients did signifie 1 Mourning. 2 Bondage. For the cutting of the hair in Servants was a token of Subjection, so that this speaks Jerusalems mournful condition in her Captivity.

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 Churches Lamentation, La[illegible: 1 letter]. 5.16. for it is not here exhorted to, as a token of Repentance, but as a threatning of Judgments.

See chap. 3.3. lis[illegible: 1 letter] 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.

Or of his over-running 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, ver. 18.20. a generation destin'd 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.

Marginal references: chap. 16.6.