Jeremiah 8:15
A waiting For prosperity, but no welfare,—For a time of healing, but lo! terror.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
In Context
Cross References
Jeremiah 4:10Then said I,—Ah! My Lord Yahweh! Surely, thou hast suffered this people and Jerusalem to be beguiled, saying, Peace, shall ye have,—whereas the sword shall reach unto the soul.
Jeremiah 8:11And so they have healed the grievous wound of the daughter of my people, slightly,—Saying, Peace! peace! when there was no peace!
Jeremiah 14:19Hast thou, utterly rejected, Judah? Zion itself, hath thy soul loathed? Why, hast thou smitten us so that there is for us no healing? A waiting For prosperity, but no welfare, and For a time of healing, but lo! terror!
Micah 1:12Though the inhabitress of Maroth waited for blessing,—yet there came down calamity from Yahweh, to the gate of Jerusalem.
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 →