Yēlìmǐshū 8:13

13 Yēhéhuá shuō , wǒ bì shǐ tāmen quán rán mièjué . pútàoshù shang bì méiyǒu pútào , wúhuāguǒ shù shang bì méiyǒu guǒzi , yèzi yĕ bì kū gān . wǒ suǒ cìgĕi tāmende , bì líkāi tāmen guo qù .

Yēlìmǐshū 8:13 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 8:13

I will surely consume them, saith the Lord
Or, "gathering I will gather them" ^F11; into some one place, the city of Jerusalem, and there destroy them. The word is, (hyylk Nwvl) , expressive of consumption and destruction, as Jarchi, Kimchi, and Ben Melech observe; and so the Targum,

``destroying I will destroy them, saith the Lord.''

There shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the
leaf shall fade;
some understand this by way of complaint, that there were no fruit on the vine and fig tree, nor even leaves; which they allegorically interpret of the fruit of good works being wanting in them, which was the cause of their ruin. Others think there are metaphors which describe the manner of their destruction; and so the Targum,

``and they shall fall, as the grapes fall from the vine, and as the falling fruit from the fig tree, and as the leaf from the tree.''

Though it rather intends the sterility of the land, and in general the famine that should attend the siege of Jerusalem. Grapes and figs are mentioned only, as Kimchi observes, because they were the chief fruits, and they are put for the whole. And the things that I have given them shall pass away from them;
whatever they had in their barns and cellars, or were just becoming ripe in their fields, vineyards, and gardens, should either be blasted, or rather be taken away and devoured by their enemies, so that they themselves should not enjoy them. The Targum interprets it of the law transgressed by them, as the cause of their ruin, and paraphrases it thus,

``because I have given them my law from Sinai, and they have transgressed it;''

and so Jarchi,

``this shall be unto them, because I have given them statutes, and they have transgressed them.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 (Mpyoa Poa) "eolligendo colligam eos", Montanus, Tigurine version. So Piscator.

Yēlìmǐshū 8:13 In-Context

11 Tāmen qīng qīng hū hū dì yīzhì wǒ bǎixìng de sún shāng , shuō , píngān le . píngān le . qíshí méiyǒu píngān .

12 Tāmen xíng kĕ zēng de shì zhīdào cánkuì ma . bù rán , tāmen haó bù cánkuì , yĕ bù zhī xiūchǐ . yīncǐ tāmen bì zaì pú dǎo de rén zhōng pú dǎo . wǒ xiàng tāmen tǎo zuì de shíhou , tāmen bì zhì diēdǎo . zhè shì Yēhéhuá shuō de .

13 Yēhéhuá shuō , wǒ bì shǐ tāmen quán rán mièjué . pútàoshù shang bì méiyǒu pútào , wúhuāguǒ shù shang bì méiyǒu guǒzi , yèzi yĕ bì kū gān . wǒ suǒ cìgĕi tāmende , bì líkāi tāmen guo qù .

14 Wǒmen wèihé jìng zuò bú dòng ne . wǒmen dāng jùjí , jìnrù jiāngù chéng , zaì nàli jìngmò bù yán . yīnwei Yēhéhuá wǒmen de shén shǐ wǒmen jìngmò bù yán , yòu jiāng kǔdǎn shuǐ gĕi wǒmen hē , dōu yīn wǒmen de zuì le Yēhéhuá .

15 Wǒmen zhǐwang píngān , què dé bù zhe hǎo chù . zhǐwang quányù de shíhou , búliào , shòu le jīng huáng .