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Barnes' Notes on Jeremiah 8:20

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Albert Barnes (1798–1870) · 19th-century historical commentary
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The summer - Rather, the fruit-gathering, which follows the grain-harvest. The grain has failed; the fruit-gathering has also proved unproductive; so despair seized the people when they saw opportunities for their deliverance again and again pass by, until God seemed utterly to have forgotten them. return to 'Top of Page'
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