Jeremiah 8:20

Good News Translation

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

Parallel Translations

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

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

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

English Standard 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."

New Century Version
And the people say, "Harvest time is over; summer has ended, and we have not been 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].

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
The haruest is past, the sommer is ended, and we are not holpen.

Legacy Standard Bible
"Harvest is past, 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."

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

Complete Jewish Bible
"The harvest has passed, the summer is over, and still we are not saved."

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

Easy-to-Read Version
And the people say, "Harvest time is over. Summer is gone, and still we have not been saved."

George Lamsa Translation
The harvest is past, the grapes are gathered, and we are not saved.

Lexham English Bible
The harvest has passed, the summer has come to an end, and we have not received help.

Literal Translation
Harvest has passed; the summer has ended, and we are not delivered.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The haruest is gone, the Somer hath an ende, and we are not helped.

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

Bible in Basic English
The grain-cutting is past, the summer is ended, and no salvation has come to us.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
'The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.'

King James Version (1611)
The haruest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saued.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The haruest is gone, the sommer hath an ende, and we are not helped.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The summer is gone, the harvest is past, and we are not saved.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Heruest is passid, somer is endid; and we ben not sauyd.

Update Bible Version
The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, and we are not saved.

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

New English Translation
"They cry, ‘Harvest time has come and gone, and the summer is over, and still we have not been delivered.'

New King James Version
"The harvest is past, The summer is 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!"

New Life Bible
"Gathering time is past, summer is ended, and we are not saved."

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The harvest is passed, The fruit-gathering, is ended; And we are not saved!

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

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

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

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Harvest is past, summer is ended, And we are not saved."

Contextual Overview

¹³ "I wanted to gather my people, as a farmer gathers a harvest; but they are like a vine with no grapes, like a fig tree with no figs; even the leaves have withered. Therefore, I have allowed outsiders to take over the land." ¹⁴ "Why are we sitting still?" God's people ask. "Come on, we will run to the fortified cities and die there. The Lord our God has condemned us to die; he has given us poison to drink, because we have sinned against him. ¹⁵ We hoped for peace and a time of healing, but it was no use; terror came instead. ¹⁶ Our enemies are already in the city of Dan; we hear the snorting of their horses. The whole land trembles when their horses neigh. Our enemies have come to destroy our land and everything in it, our city and all its people." ¹⁷ "Watch out!" the Lord says, "I am sending snakes among you, poisonous snakes that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you." ¹⁸ My sorrow cannot be healed; I am sick at heart. ¹⁹ Listen! Throughout the land I hear my people crying out, "Is the Lord no longer in Zion? Is Zion's king no longer there?" The Lord , their king, replies, "Why have you made me angry by worshiping your idols and by bowing down to your useless foreign gods?" ²⁰ The people cry out, "The summer is gone, the harvest is over, but we have not been saved." ²¹ My heart has been crushed because my people are crushed; I mourn; I am completely dismayed. ²² Is there no medicine in Gilead? Are there no doctors there? Why, then, have my people not been healed?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 10:5, Luke 13:25, Luke 19:44, Hebrews 3:7-15, Matthew 25:1-12

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 6:4 - for the Jeremiah 51:9 - forsake Lamentations 4:17 - our eyes

Cross-References

Genesis 4:4
Then Abel brought the first lamb born to one of his sheep, killed it, and gave the best parts of it as an offering. The Lord was pleased with Abel and his offering,

Genesis 7:2
Take with you seven pairs of each kind of ritually clean animal, but only one pair of each kind of unclean animal.

Genesis 8:1
God had not forgotten Noah and all the animals with him in the boat; he caused a wind to blow, and the water started going down.

Genesis 8:4
On the seventeenth day of the seventh month the boat came to rest on a mountain in the Ararat range.

Genesis 8:7
and sent out a raven. It did not come back, but kept flying around until the water was completely gone.

Genesis 8:8
Meanwhile, Noah sent out a dove to see if the water had gone down,

Genesis 8:15
God said to Noah,

Genesis 8:16
"Go out of the boat with your wife, your sons, and their wives.

Genesis 8:17
Take all the birds and animals out with you, so that they may reproduce and spread over all the earth."

Genesis 13:4
and had built an altar. There he worshiped the Lord .

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The harvest is past,.... Which was in the month of Ijar, as Jarchi observes, and answers to part of April and May:

the summer is ended; which was in the month Tammuz, and answers to part of June and July:

and we are not saved; delivered from the siege of the Chaldeans; and harvest and summer being over, there were no hopes of the Egyptians coming to their relief; seeing winter was approaching; and it may be observed, that it was in the month of Ab, which answers to part of July and August, that the city and temple were burnt. These are the words of the people of the Jews, despairing of help and salvation. So the Targum,

"the congregation of Israel said, the time is passed, the end is up, and we are not redeemed.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The summer - Rather, the fruit-gathering, which follows the grain-harvest. The grain has failed; the fruit-gathering has also proved unproductive; so despair seized the people when they saw opportunities for their deliverance again and again pass by, until God seemed utterly to have forgotten them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 8:20. The harvest is past — The siege of Jerusalem lasted two years; for Nebuchadnezzar came against it in the ninth year of Zedekiah, and the city was taken in the eleventh; see 2 Kings 25:1-3. This seems to have been a proverb: "We expected deliverance the first year - none came. We hoped for it the second year - we are disappointed; we are not saved - no deliverance is come."