Jeremiah 8:15

We are hoping for peace, but there will be nothing good. 1 We are hoping for a time of healing, but see, there will be terror.

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

In Context

14Why are we sitting here? Come together; let us go to the fortified cities, and we will become silent there in death. 1 For Yahweh our God will silence us. He will make us drink poison, since we have sinned against him. 1

16The snorting of his stallions is heard from Dan. The whole earth shakes at the sound of the neighing of his strong horses. 1 For they will come and consume the land and its wealth, the city and the ones living in it. 1

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Cross References

Jeremiah 4:10So I said, “Ah! Lord Yahweh. Surely you have completely deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying, 'There will be peace for you.' Yet the sword is striking against their life.”

Jeremiah 8:11They healed the wounds of my people lightly, 1 saying, “Peace, Peace,” when there was no peace. 1

Jeremiah 14:19Have you completely rejected Judah? Do you hate Zion? 1 Why will you afflict us when there is no healing for us? We hoped for peace, but there was nothing good— 1 and for a time of healing, but see, there is only terror. 1

Micah 1:12For the inhabitants of Maroth wait anxiously for good news, 1 because disaster has come down from Yahweh 1 to the gates of Jerusalem. 1

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 8:14-22

Destruction Threatened for Sin; Despair of Sinners in Trouble; The Prophet's Lamentation. ( b. c. 606.) 13 I will surely consume them, saith the Lord : there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them. 14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have… Read the whole commentary →

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