“Cut off your hair!
Throw it away!
Raise a lamentation
On the bare heights!
Yahweh has rejected
The generation
That provoked his wrath.
Yahweh has forsaken
The generation
That provoked his wrath.
The people of Judah
Have done evil in my sight.’
Says Yahweh.
‘They have set their abominations
In the house
That is called by my name.
They defile it.’”
Yahweh wanted Jeremiah to go into mourning by cutting off his hair. He should get rid of his hair and lament from the heights because Yahweh, in his wrath, has rejected and forsaken this generation. The people of Judah, in specific, have done evil in the sight of Yahweh. They have placed abominations of false idol gods in his house. Thus they have defiled the Temple.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 