John Gill, on Jer 8:20

“The harvest is passed, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.”

“For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt,.... These are the words, not of God, as Jerom; nor of Jerusalem, as the Targum; but of the prophet, as Kimchi observes, expressing his sympathy with the people in their affliction: and they may be rendered, "for the breach of the daughter of my people" (o), which was made when the city was broken up and destroyed, Jer 52:7. I am broken; in heart and spirit: I am black; with grief and sorrow. The Targum is, "my face is covered with blackness, black as a pot.'' Astonishment hath taken hold on me; at the miseries that were come upon his people; and there was no remedy for them, which occasion the following words. (o) "super contritione", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus; "super confractione", Schmidt; "ob fractionem", Cocceius.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.