A child who gathers in summer is prudent, but a child who sleeps in harvest brings shame.
Jeremiah 8:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 “The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The harvest is past, the summer has ended and the gathering of fruit is over, yet we are not saved! [comes again the voice of the people.] American Standard Version (1901) The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. Common English Bible “The harvest is past, the summer has ended, yet we aren’t saved.” Catholic Public Domain Version The harvest has passed by, the summer is at an end, and we have not been saved. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. |
A child who gathers in summer is prudent, but a child who sleeps in harvest brings shame.
Listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from far and wide in the land: “Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King not in her?” (“Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with their foreign idols?”)
For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am broken, I mourn, and horror has seized me.
Once the owner of the house has got up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us,’ then in reply he will say to you, ‘I do not know where you come from.’
They will crush you to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave within you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”