Charles Ellicott Commentary Jeremiah 8:13

"I will utterly consume them, saith Jehovah: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig-tree, and the leaf shall fade; and [the things that] I have given them shall pass away from them." — Jeremiah 8:13 (ASV)

I will surely consume. —Literally, Gathering, I will sweep away — i.e., I will gather and sweep away, the two verbs being all but identical in sound and spelling, so that the construction has almost the force of the emphatic Hebrew reduplication.

There shall be. —These words are not in the Hebrew, and the verse describes, not the judgment of Jehovah on the state of Israel, but that state itself. There are no grapes on the vine, no figs on the fig-tree, the leaf fadeth. The words are figurative rather than literal, after the manner of Jeremiah 2:21; Isaiah 5:2. Israel is a degenerate vine, a barren fig-tree.

Here, again, we find an echo of the teaching of Jeremiah in that of Jesus (Matthew 21:19; Luke 13:6–9). In Micah 7:1 we have another example of the same figurative language.

The things that I have given them ... —The words have been differently rendered:

1. I gave them that which they transgress — i.e., the divine law of righteousness.
2. therefore I will appoint those that shall pass over them — i.e., the invaders who will overrun their country.

The former seems on the whole best suited to the context.