Jeremiah 8:13 NIV

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

John Gill

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

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:13

Verse 13 He confirms, as I have said, what he had declared in the last verse, tie had said, that there would be the ruin of the whole people: for the same purpose he now adds, Destroying I will destroy them The verb אסף, asaph, properly means “to collect, “but metaphorically, “to destroy;” as we say in our language, Trousser; Je les trousserai tous ensemble. And hence it more fully appears, that the Prophet explains what he had said, that destruction was nigh them all, so that none would... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 8:13

There shall be no grapes , etc.; rather, there are no grapes … and the leaf is faded . It is the actual condition of things which the prophet describes. Elsewhere Judah is compared to a vine with bad grapes ( Jeremiah 2:21 ); here the vine does not even pretend to bear fruit. Another figure is that of a barren fig tree (comp. Matthew 21:19 ). And the things that I have given them , etc.; rather, and I gave them that which they transgress (viz. laws ). The construction,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 8:13-15

False hopes ministering despair. The lessons of life are not readily learned by most men. They require to be frequently repeated ere they produce an impression. God, therefore, deals severely with his people, whose delusion is the more unpardonable because of the piety of their fathers and the light of revelation which had been given. He will, therefore, make to "pass away from them" one by one the things that he had given: the fruits of the earth shall be cut off; the comforts of life... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 8:13

Or, “I will gather and sweep them away, saith Jehovah: there are no grapes on the vine, and no figs on the fig-tree, and the leaf is dry: therefore will I appoint those that shall pass over them.” Judah is a vine which bears no fruit: a tree which makes even no profession of life, for her leaf is dry. Many explain the last words of an army sweeping over the land like a flood. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 8:13

Jeremiah 8:13. There shall be no grapes on the vine A figurative expression, to signify that there should be none of them left. And the leaf shall fade, &c. As both leaves and fruit wither and fade when a tree is blasted or killed, so will I utterly deprive this people of all the blessings I had given them, of those which are for use, as well as those which are for ornament. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:4-17

Sin and its punishment (8:4-17)It is natural for a person who falls to pick himself up again, but the people of Jerusalem who have fallen spiritually make no attempt to return to God (4-6). It is natural for a bird to obey the laws of instinct and know the time to migrate, but the people of Jerusalem do not know the laws of God or when to return to him (7).The teachers of the law, the wisdom teachers, the priests and the prophets have all led the people astray. Instead of denouncing wrongdoing,... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 8:13

surely consume them. Note the Figure of speech Paronomasia . Hebrew. 'asoph 'asiphem. on the vine. See note on Jeremiah 6:9 . shall fade = is withered. the things . . . from them: or, I have appointed them those that shall pass over them. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 8:13

Jeremiah 8:13. I will surely consume then, &c.— I was about to gather them, saith the Lord, but there are no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig-tree; and the leaves themselves have faded: they have dissipated those things which I gave them. Houb. Instead of, And the things, &c. we may read, And what strength there is in them, shall pass away, &c. read more