Jeremiah 8:20
New International Version
“The harvest is past, the summer has ended, and we are not saved.”

New Living Translation
“The harvest is finished, and the summer is gone,” the people cry, “yet we are not saved!”

English Standard Version
“The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.”

Berean Standard Bible
“The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.”

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

New King James Version
“The harvest is past, The summer is ended, And we are not saved!”

New American Standard Bible
“Harvest is past, summer is over, And we are not saved.”

NASB 1995
“Harvest is past, summer is ended, And we are not saved.”

NASB 1977
“Harvest is past, summer is ended, And we are not saved.”

Legacy Standard Bible
“Harvest is past, summer is ended, And we are not saved.”

Amplified Bible
“The harvest is past, the summer has ended and the gathering of fruit is over, But we are not saved,” [comes the voice of the people again].

Christian Standard Bible
Harvest has passed, summer has ended, but we have not been saved.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Harvest has passed, summer has ended, but we have not been saved.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Harvest has passed and the vintage has ended, and we have not been saved!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The summer is gone, the harvest is past, and we are not saved.

Contemporary English Version
The people complain, "Spring and summer have come and gone, but still the LORD hasn't rescued us."

Douay-Rheims Bible
The harvest is passed, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The harvest is past, the summer has ended, and we haven't been saved.

Good News Translation
The people cry out, "The summer is gone, the harvest is over, but we have not been saved."

International Standard Version
The harvest is past, the summer has ended, and we haven't been delivered.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The harvest is past, the summer is ended, And we are not saved.'

Literal Standard Version
Harvest has passed, summer has ended, | And we have not been saved.

Majority Standard Bible
“The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.”

New American Bible
“The harvest is over, the summer ended, but we have not yet been saved!”

NET Bible
"They cry, 'Harvest time has come and gone, and the summer is over, and still we have not been delivered.'

New Revised Standard Version
“The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.”

New Heart English Bible
"'The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.'

Webster's Bible Translation
The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

World English Bible
“The harvest is past. The summer has ended, and we are not saved.”

Young's Literal Translation
Harvest hath passed, summer hath ended, And we -- we have not been saved.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Jeremiah Weeps for His People
19Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?” 20“The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.” 21For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.…

Cross References
Jeremiah 8:19
Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: "Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?" "Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?"

Jeremiah 8:21
For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.


Treasury of Scripture

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

Proverbs 10:5
He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.

Luke 13:25
When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:

Luke 19:44
And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

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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.














(20) The harvest is past . . .--The question of Jehovah, admitting of no answer but a confession of guilt, is met by another cry of despair from the sufferers of the future. They are as men in a year of famine--"The harvest is past," and there has been no crop for men to reap.

Summer.--In Isaiah 16:9; Jeremiah 40:10, and elsewhere, the word is rendered by "summer fruits." "The summer" (better, the fruit-gathering) is ended, and yet they are not saved from misery and death. All has failed alike. The whole formula had probably become proverbial for extremest misery. It is well to remember that the barley-harvest coincided with the Passover, the wheat-harvest with Pentecost, the fruit-gathering with the autumn Feast of Tabernacles.

Verse 20. - The harvest is past, etc. For "summer," read fruit-gathering (the vintage began in September). The people again becomes the speaker. The form of the speech reminds one of a proverb. When the harvest was over and the fruit-gathering ended, the husbandmen looked for a quiet time of refreshment. Judah had had its "harvest-time" and then its "fruit-gathering;" its needs had been gradually, increasing, and, on the analogy of previous deliverances (comp. Isaiah 18:4; Isaiah 33:10), it might have been expected that God would have interposed, his help being only delayed in order to be the more signally supernatural. But we are not saved (or rather, delivered).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
“The harvest
קָצִ֖יר (qā·ṣîr)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7105: Severed, harvest, the crop, the time, the reaper, a limb

has passed,
עָבַ֥ר (‘ā·ḇar)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5674: To pass over, through, or by, pass on

the summer
קָ֑יִץ (qā·yiṣ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7019: To awake

has ended,
כָּ֣לָה (kā·lāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3615: To be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent

but we
וַאֲנַ֖חְנוּ (wa·’ă·naḥ·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - first person common plural
Strong's 587: We

have not
ל֥וֹא (lō·w)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

been saved.”
נוֹשָֽׁעְנוּ׃ (nō·wō·šā·‘ə·nū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - first person common plural
Strong's 3467: To be open, wide, free, to be safe, to free, succor


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