13 “I will gather them and bring them to an end.”[a](A)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
“There will be no grapes on the vine,
no figs on the fig tree,
and even the leaf will wither.
Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.”

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Footnotes

  1. 8:13 Lit Gathering I will end them

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.

Judah mourns;
her city gates languish.(A)
Her people are on the ground in mourning;
Jerusalem’s cry rises up.(B)

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“Judah mourns,(A)
    her cities languish;
they wail for the land,
    and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.

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For this reason the land mourns,(A)
and everyone who lives in it languishes,
along with the wild animals(B) and the birds of the sky;
even the fish of the sea disappear.(C)

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Because of this the land dries up,(A)
    and all who live in it waste away;(B)
the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky
    and the fish in the sea are swept away.(C)

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