Jeremiah 6:14

And they healed the breach of my people imperfectly, making light of it, and saying, Peace, peace: and where is peace?

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

In Context

13For from the least of them even to the greatest they have all committed iniquity; from the priest even to the false prophet they have all wrought falsely.

15They were ashamed because they failed; yet they were not ashamed as those who are truly ashamed, and they knew not their own disgrace: therefore shall they utterly fall when they do fall, and in the time of visitation shall they perish, said the Lord.

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Cross References

Isaiah 30:26And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold in the day when the Lord shall heal the breach of his people, and shall heal the pain of thy wound.

Jeremiah 5:12have lied to their Lord, and they have said, These things are not so; no evils shall come upon us; and we shall not see sword or famine.

Jeremiah 14:13And I said, O ever living Lord! behold, their prophets prophesy, and say, Ye shall not see a sword, nor shall famine be among you; for I will give truth and peace on the land, and in this place.

Jeremiah 23:17They say to them that reject the word of the Lord, There shall be peace to you; and to all that walk after their own lusts, and to every one that walks in the error of his heart, they have said, No evil shall come upon thee.

Lamentations 2:14Thy prophets have seen for thee 1 Vanities and folly: 1 And they have not discovered thine iniquity, 1 To turn back thy captivity; 1 But they have seen for thee vain burdens, 1 And worthless visions. 1

Ezekiel 13:16even the prophets of Israel, who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 6:10-18

The Universal Corruption of the Age. ( b. c. 608.) 9 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets. 10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the Lord is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it. 11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord ; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the… Read the whole commentary →

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