Jeremiah 8:20

“The harvest is past. The summer has ended, and we are not saved.”

World English Bible

In The King James Version

The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

In Context

19Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: “Isn’t the LORD in Zion? Isn’t her King in her?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign idols?”

21For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt. I mourn. Dismay has taken hold of me.

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Cross References

Matthew 25:1“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

Luke 19:44and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 8:14-22

Destruction Threatened for Sin; Despair of Sinners in Trouble; The Prophet's Lamentation. ( b. c. 606.) 13 I will surely consume them, saith the Lord : there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them. 14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have… Read the whole commentary →

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