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Barnes' Notes on Jeremiah 8:13

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Albert Barnes (1798–1870) · 19th-century historical commentary
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Or, “I will gather and sweep them away, saith Jehovah: there are no grapes on the vine, and no figs on the fig-tree, and the leaf is dry: therefore will I appoint those that shall pass over them.” Judah is a vine which bears no fruit: a tree which makes even no profession of life, for her leaf is dry. Many explain the last words of an army sweeping over the land like a flood. return to 'Top of Page'
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