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Jeremiah 8:13
I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the tree, and even the leaf will wither. Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Yahweh speaks through Jeremiah to Judah during a period of national collapse, immediately after declaring their shamelessness and impending fall. The prophecy addresses a people who refuse to repent despite clear warnings of divine judgment.
The words — אָסֹף ('a.Sof) = surely <gather> and אֲסִפֵ֖/ם ('a.si.Fe/m) = I will make an end of/them frame the declaration that God will actively remove their agricultural yield and bring their provisions to ruin.
The thread — The motif of stripped vines and withered fig trees recurs in Joel 1:7, where a similar agricultural desolation is described, and is echoed in Matthew 21:19 when Jesus curses a fig tree that bears leaves but no fruit. The contrast with Psalm 1:3 highlights the reversal from a fruitful, watered tree to a barren, withered one.
Why it lands — The text states that God will directly remove every provision the people rely on, leaving them with nothing they once possessed. It demands recognition that spiritual rebellion triggers tangible loss, requiring immediate accountability rather than passive resignation.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
I will surely consume them, saith the Lord: 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.
Cross-references
- Matthew 21:19 Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. “May you never bear fruit again!” He said. And immediately the tree withered.
- Joel 1:7 It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.
- Psalms 1:3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.
- Jeremiah 17:8 He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.
- Haggai 2:17 I struck you—all the work of your hands—with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to Me, declares the LORD.
- Leviticus 26:20 and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.
- Deuteronomy 28:39 You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.
- Isaiah 5:4 What more could have been done for My vineyard than I have done for it? Why, when I expected sweet grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit?
- Isaiah 5:10 For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”
- Isaiah 24:21 In that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven above and the kings of the earth below.