Jeremiah Chapter 8 verse 20 Holy Bible

ASV Jeremiah 8:20

The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
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BBE Jeremiah 8:20

The grain-cutting is past, the summer is ended, and no salvation has come to us.
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DARBY Jeremiah 8:20

The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
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KJV Jeremiah 8:20

The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
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WBT Jeremiah 8:20


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WEB Jeremiah 8:20

The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
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YLT Jeremiah 8:20

Harvest hath passed, summer hath ended, And we -- we have not been saved.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - The harvest is past, etc. For "summer," read fruit-gathering (the vintage began in September). The people again becomes the speaker. The form of the speech reminds one of a proverb. When the harvest was over and the fruit-gathering ended, the husbandmen looked for a quiet time of refreshment. Judah had had its "harvest-time" and then its "fruit-gathering;" its needs had been gradually, increasing, and, on the analogy of previous deliverances (comp. Isaiah 18:4; Isaiah 33:10), it might have been expected that God would have interposed, his help being only delayed in order to be the more signally supernatural. But we are not saved (or rather, delivered).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) 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 famine--"The harvest is past," and there has been no crop for men to reap.Summer.--In Isaiah 16:9; Jeremiah 40:10, and elsewhere, the word is rendered by "summer fruits." "The summer" (better, the fruit-gathering) is ended, and yet they are not saved from misery and death. All has failed alike. The whole formula had probably become proverbial for extremest misery. It is well to remember that the barley-harvest coincided with the Passover, the wheat-harvest with Pentecost, the fruit-gathering with the autumn Feast of Tabernacles.