The Meaning of Jeremiah 8:20 Explained

Jeremiah 8:20

KJV: The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

YLT: Harvest hath passed, summer hath ended, And we -- we have not been saved.

Darby: The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

ASV: The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Jeremiah 8:20?

MEANING: What does Jeremiah 8:20 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Jeremiah 8:20 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Jeremiah 8:20?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

The harvest  is past,  the summer  is ended,  and we are not saved. 

What does Jeremiah 8:20 Mean?

Verse Meaning

The time for divine deliverance had come and gone. The Lord had left them exposed to judgment, as grain left standing after the harvest.
"It would appear that we have here a popular proverb used in daily life when men encountered a hopeless situation from which no deliverance or escape seemed possible. Jeremiah pictured the people of Judah as having passed by one opportunity after another to repent of their rebellious ways and so be delivered or saved (Heb. nosha") from coming judgment." [1]

Context Summary

Jeremiah 8:4-22 - False Promises Of Peace
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 people set on evil. The very birds that were sensitive to the laws of migration, and obeyed the call of the sunnier clime, were more impressible than the Chosen People. God often calls us out of the stormy winter blasts to lands of sunny fellowship, but we will not heed. From Jeremiah 5:10 onward we have a description of the desolation about to visit the land. Notwithstanding the promises of false prophets, the invader overran the country and the exiled people might readily begin to question why such a fate had befallen them. To this there was but one answer. Their sin had cut them off from God's protecting care. Is not this the reason why harvests pass and summers end, and the years roll on, and still you are not saved? There is balm for your wounds, and a physician for your healing, but you do not avail yourselves of them; and God's love is powerless, however greatly He desires to help you, until you return. The father would do anything for the prodigal, but He has no chance so long as the prodigal remains in the far-land. [source]

Chapter Summary: Jeremiah 8

1  The calamity of the Jews, both dead and alive
4  He upbraids their foolish and shameless impenitency
13  He shows their grievous judgment;
18  and bewails their desperate estate

What do the individual words in Jeremiah 8:20 mean?

is past the harvest is ended the summer and we not are saved
עָבַ֥ר קָצִ֖יר כָּ֣לָה קָ֑יִץ וַאֲנַ֖חְנוּ ל֥וֹא נוֹשָֽׁעְנוּ

עָבַ֥ר  is  past 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: עָבַר 
Sense: to pass over or by or through, alienate, bring, carry, do away, take, take away, transgress.
קָצִ֖יר  the  harvest 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: קָצִיר 
Sense: harvest, harvesting.
כָּ֣לָה  is  ended 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: כָּלָה  
Sense: to accomplish, cease, consume, determine, end, fail, finish, be complete, be accomplished, be ended, be at an end, be finished, be spent.
קָ֑יִץ  the  summer 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: קַיִץ  
Sense: summer, summer-fruit.
וַאֲנַ֖חְנוּ  and  we 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Pronoun, first person common plural
Root: אֲנַחְנוּ  
Sense: we (first pers.
נוֹשָֽׁעְנוּ  are  saved 
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Perfect, first person common plural
Root: יָשַׁע 
Sense: to save, be saved, be delivered.

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