The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved - proverbial. Meaning, One season of hope after another has passed, but the looked for deliverance never came, and now all hope is gone.
Verse Jeremiah 8:20. _THE HARVEST IS PAST_] The siege of Jerusalem lasted _two_ _years_; for Nebuchadnezzar came against it in the _ninth_ year of Zedekiah, and the city was taken in the _eleventh_;...
THE SUMMER - Rather, the fruit-gathering, which follows the grain-harvest. The grain has failed; the fruit-gathering has also proved unproductive; so despair seized the people when they saw opportunit...
CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The horrors of the invasion (Jeremiah 8:1) _ 2. Hardened hearts and retribution (Jeremiah 8:4) 3. Utter destruction threatened (Jeremiah 8:13) 4. The prophet's lamentation ...
JEREMIAH 8:18 TO JEREMIAH 9:1. JEREMIAH'S SORROW OVER JUDAH'S SUFFERING. The prophet, in sorrowful sympathy with his people, hears in anticipation the cry of the exiles and Yahweh's answer. They repro...
JEREMIAH PREDICTING THE CAPTIVITY.--8:20-22; 9:1-16. GOLDEN TEXT. --_ The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved._ -- Jeremiah 8:20. TIME. --About B. C. 610. PLACE. --Jerusalem. HE...
The harvest lasted from April to June; later came "the summer," better (mg.), _ingathering of summer fruits_. As when the harvest was bad, there remained yet hopes from the yield of grapes, figs, oliv...
Jeremiah 8:4 to Jeremiah 9:1. Forecast of punishment as the result of sin The section may be thus summarized. (i) Jeremiah 8:4. Human fortunes and conduct are as a rule liable to change, but Israel...
DISCOURSE: 1043 THE REMEDY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE LOST THEIR SEASONS OF GRACE Jeremiah 8:20. _The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I...
THE HARVEST IS PAST— The people, besieged in Jerusalem, afflicted themselves on account of the length of the siege. "We flattered ourselves," say they, "with a speedy deliverance; the false prophets a...
D. Unbearable Pain on the Part of the Prophet Jeremiah 8:18 to Jeremiah 9:1 TRANSLATION (18) O my Comfort against sorrow! My heart is faint within me! (19) Behold, the sound of the cry of the daughte...
1-3. The dead shall share in the universal punishment....
When the harvest was bad there was still hope of the yield from grapes, etc. But the people had lost one chance of deliverance after another, and might now despair. SUMMER] RM 'ingathering of summer f...
THE HARVEST IS PAST... — The question of Jehovah, admitting of no answer but a confession of guilt, is met by another cry of despair from the sufferers of the future. They are as men in a year of fami...
עָבַ֥ר קָצִ֖יר כָּ֣לָה קָ֑יִץ וַ אֲנַ֖חְנוּ ל
Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a fin
FALSE PROMISES OF PEACE Jeremiah 8:4-22 This chapter is filled with denunciation of the unreasonable and infatuated obstinacy of Israel. As the horse rushes madly to the fight, so were the people set...
Utter desolation would overtake them so that death would be chosen rather than life. This sin of idolatry had been aggravated by the people's terrible persistence therein. If men fall it is naturally...
The (p) harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. (p) The people wonder that they have for so long a time looked for comfort in vain....
Saved. Our hopes of redress are vanished. We must still pine away for want of food. (Haydock) --- The siege continues, though we had been assured it would shortly be terminated. (Calmet) --- It commen...
I bring the whole of this beautiful Chapter, from this verse to the end into one view, for the sake of shortness, and from necessity; but otherwise nothing could be more desirable than to dwell upon e...
_HARVEST PAST: SUMMER ENDED_ ‘The harvest is past, the summer is ended.’ Jeremiah 8:20 These words were first spoken of the ruined hopes and blighted fortunes of God’s people, Israel. Truly for tha...
The Prophet shews now in the name of the people what was the hindrance. At the time Jeremiah spoke, the _Jews _confidently boasted that God was their defender; and they did not think that the Chaldean...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9. Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple, which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without conscience, wo...
THE HARVEST IS PAST,.... Which was in the month of Ijar, as Jarchi observes, and answers to part of April and May: THE SUMMER IS ENDED; which was in the month Tammuz, and answers to part of June and...
_The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved._ Ver. 20. _The harvest is past, the summer is ended._] They had set God a time, and looked for help that summer at farthest; but the L...
_The harvest is past_, &c. Here the prophet speaks again in the name of the people, or, rather, represents the people besieged in Jerusalem complaining on account of the length of the siege. Their fal...
The harvest is past, so the people continue to lament, THE SUMMER IS ENDED, AND WE ARE NOT SAVED. As the farmer who expects a good harvest and is disappointed sees only failure and ruin before his eye...
FURTHER DESCRIPTION OF THE IMPENDING PUNISHMENT...
14-22 At length they begin to see the hand of God lifted up. And when God appears against us, every thing that is against us appears formidable. As salvation only can be found in the Lord, so the pre...
THE HARVEST IS PAST, and the winter no time for war; the people's continued complaint, not unlike that JEREMIAH 8:15. The year is gone, and we are still frustrated in our expectations, the time that w...
Jeremiah 8:20 harvest H7105 past H5674 (H8804) summer H7019 ended H3615 (H8804) saved H3467 (H8738)...
Jeremiah 8:20 No hope, no hope! That was the peculiar burden of Jeremiah, that was the vision forced upon him, the message he was constrained to deliver, while the people and their leaders were nursi...
Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bo...
Jeremiah 8:1. At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bon...
CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, continued. Terrible judgments impending. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Impenitence brings certain ruin. All the boasted wisdom of man cannot serve to k...
Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah of the princes of the priests, and the bones_ (as in the Chaldaic) _of the_ false _prophets._ They shall spread them be...
_The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved._ HARVEST PAST, SUMMER ENDED, AND MEN UNSAVED The passage is full of lamentation and woe, and yet it is somewhat singular that the chie...
_Is not the Lord in Zion?_ A DISCOURSE FOR A REVIVAL SEASON These words, as they stand in the Book of Jeremiah, were probably meant to set forth the sin of Israel. The prophet’s heart is very full of...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 8:18 In this exchange between Judah and God, the people claim that God has deserted them, but God notes their ongoing worship of idols. They reply that they ARE NOT SAVED (an...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Chronology and History, as in chap. 7. Observe, however, that a new section in this extended prophetic address commenced with Jeremiah 8:4, which continues to chap. Jere...
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 8:1 Punishment will even overtake the sinners who have long since been deceased. JEREMIAH 8:1 THEY SHALL BRING OUT THE BONES. Not only shall many of the dead bodies remain unbur...
At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inha...
Hebrews 3:7; Luke 13:25; Luke 19:44; Matthew 25:1; Proverbs 10:5...