Jeremias 8:20

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

Jeremias 8:20 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 8:20

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 July: and we are not saved;
delivered from the siege of the Chaldeans; and harvest and summer being over, there were no hopes of the Egyptians coming to their relief; seeing winter was approaching; and it may be observed, that it was in the month of Ab, which answers to part of July and August, that the city and temple were burnt. These are the words of the people of the Jews, despairing of help and salvation. So the Targum,

``the congregation of Israel said, the time is passed, the end is up, and we are not redeemed.''

Jeremias 8:20 In-Context

18 mortally with the pain of your distressed heart.

19 Behold, a sound of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land afar off: Is not the Lord in Sion? is there not a king there? because they have provoked me with their graven , and with strange vanities.

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

21 For the breach of the daughter of my people I have been saddened: in my perplexity pangs have seized upon me as of a woman in travail.

22 And is there no balm in Galaad, or is there no physician there? why has not the healing of the daughter of my people taken place?