Jeremiah 8:15 “We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but t…”

Jeremiah 8:15

We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!

World English Bible

We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!

American Standard Version

We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

Geneva Bible 1599

We looked for peace, but no good came, and for a time of health, and behold troubles.

Darby Translation

Peace is looked for, and there is no good; a time of healing, and behold, terror.

Young's Literal Translation

Looking for peace — and there is no good, For a time of healing, and lo, terror.

Bible in Basic English

We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.

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Cross references

“We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!”

Jeremiah 14:19 Micah 1:12 1 Thessalonians 5:3 Jeremiah 4:10

Jeremiah 14:19 · BSB

Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.

Micah 1:12 · BSB

For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.

1 Thessalonians 5:3 · BSB

While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Jeremiah 4:10 · BSB

Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, how completely You have deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying, ‘You will have peace,’ while a sword is at our throats.”

Also

Jeremiah 8:11

Jeremiah 8:11 · BSB

They dress the wound of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

14Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

16The snorting of enemy horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who dwell in it.

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