John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:13
I will surely consume them, saith the Lord ,.... Or, "gathering I will gather them" F11 אסף אסיפם "eolligendo colligam eos", Montanus, Tigurine version. So Piscator. ; into some one place, the city of Jerusalem, and there destroy them. The word is, לשון כלייה , 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... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 8:13-22
In these verses we have, I. God threatening the destruction of a sinful people. He has borne long with them, but they are still more and more provoking, and therefore now their ruin is resolved on: I will surely consume them (Jer. 8:13), consuming I will consume them, not only surely, but utterly, consume them, will follow them with one judgment after another, till they are quite consumed; it is a consumption determined, Isa. 10:23. 1. They shall be quite stripped of all their comforts (Jer.... read more