“ The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. ”
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 oppor...
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.
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. The...
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...
DISCOURSE: 1043 THE REMEDY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE LOST THEIR SEASONS OF GRACE Jeremiah 8:20-22 . The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. For the hurt of the daughter of my pe...
The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. The harvest is past - The siege of Jerusalem lasted two years; for Nebuchadnezzar came against it in the ninth year of Zedekiah, and th...
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 prophet...
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 pass...
1-3. The dead shall share in the universal punishment.
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 f...
Jeremiah 8:1-22 ; Jeremiah 9:1-26 ; Jeremiah 10:1-25 ; Jeremiah 26:1-24 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a finished whole. The only possible exception...
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 peop...
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...
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...
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 fo...
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...
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...
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. Thei...
Destruction Threatened for Sin; Despair of Sinners in Trouble; The Prophet's Lamentation. B. C. 606....
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...
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....
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 nu...
Jeremiah 8:1-2 . 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 t...
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...
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 ful...
EXPOSITION Jeremiah 8:1-24 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...
Further Description of the Impending Punishment
Hebrews 3:7-15 ; Luke 13:25 ; Luke 19:44 ; Matthew 25:1-12 ; Proverbs 10:5