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Jer_8:13 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.
Ver. 13. I will surely consume them, saith the Lord.] Texitur hic quasi tragoediae scena. Constructed here just as a theatre tragedy. Here followeth a kind of tragedy, saith an expositor; God is brought in threatening, the prophet bewailing, the people despairing, and yet bethinking themselves of some shelter and safeguard, if they knew where to find it, &c.
There shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs.] But instead thereof I will "give them waters of gall to drink." {Jer_8:14} Tremeliius and Piscator read it thus: There are no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, yea, the leaves are fallen; that is, say they, there is no power of godliness found among them, no, not so much as any profession, neither fruit nor leaf.
And the things that I have given them shall pass away.] I will "curse their blessings," {Mal_2:2} and destroy them after that I have done them good. {Jos_24:2-13}