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A Cry of Utter Despair
Commentators explain this phrase captures a sense of utter hopelessness after multiple opportunities for deliverance have passed. The passing of both the grain harvest and the later fruit-gathering symbolized the end of all chances for rescue within that year, becoming a proverbial expression for extreme misery.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 8:20
18th Century
Theologian
The summer - Rather, the fruit-gathering, which follows the grain-harvest. The grain has failed; the fruit-gathering has also proved unprodu…
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 8:20
19th Century
Bishop
The harvest is past ... —The question of Jehovah, admitting no answer but a confession of guilt, is met by another cry of…
Charles Spurgeon
On Jeremiah 8:18–21
19th Century
Preacher
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me. Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them t…
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John Calvin
On Jeremiah 8:20
16th Century
Theologian
The Prophet shows now in the name of the people what was the hindrance. At the time Jeremiah spoke, the Jews confidently boasted that God …
John Gill
On Jeremiah 8:20
17th Century
Pastor
The harvest is past which was in the month of Ijar, as Jarchi observes, and answers to part of April and May:
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 8:14–22
17th Century
Minister
Finally, they begin to see the hand of God lifted up. And when God appears against us, everything that is against us appears formidable. As salvati…