13 “I will (A)certainly snatch them away,” declares the Lord.
“There will be (B)no grapes on the vine
And (C)no figs on the fig tree,
And the leaf will wither;
And what I have given them will pass away.”’”

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13 “‘I will take away their harvest,
declares the Lord.
    There will be no grapes on the vine.(A)
There will be no figs(B) on the tree,
    and their leaves will wither.(C)
What I have given them
    will be taken(D) from them.[a]’”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 8:13 The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.

10 I found Israel like (A)grapes in the wilderness;
I saw your forefathers as the (B)earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season.
But they came to (C)Baal-peor and devoted themselves to [a](D)shame,
And they became as (E)detestable as that which they loved.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 9:10 I.e., Baal

10 “When I found Israel,
    it was like finding grapes in the desert;
when I saw your ancestors,
    it was like seeing the early fruit(A) on the fig(B) tree.
But when they came to Baal Peor,(C)
    they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol(D)
    and became as vile as the thing they loved.

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16 for this is what the Lord says concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who live in this city, your brothers who did (A)not go with you into exile— 17 this is what the Lord of armies says: ‘Behold, I am sending upon them the (B)sword, famine, and plague; and I will make them like (C)rotten figs that cannot be eaten due to rottenness.

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16 but this is what the Lord says about the king who sits on David’s throne and all the people who remain in this city, your fellow citizens who did not go with you into exile— 17 yes, this is what the Lord Almighty says: “I will send the sword, famine and plague(A) against them and I will make them like figs(B) that are so bad they cannot be eaten.

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