Jeremiah 8:15

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 14:19 : 19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
  • Mic 1:12 : 12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good, because evil is come down from Jehovah unto the gate of Jerusalem.
  • 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.
  • Jer 4:10 : 10 Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the life.
  • Jer 8:11 : 11 And they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

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  • Jer 14:19-20
    2 verses
    82%

    19Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

    20We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.

  • Ezek 7:25
    77%

    25Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

  • Jer 8:11
    77%

    11And they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

  • Jer 8:14
    77%

    14Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Jehovah our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.

  • 2 Chr 15:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

    5And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in; but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the lands.

    6And they were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God did vex them with all adversity.

  • Isa 59:8-11
    4 verses
    76%

    8The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein doth not know peace.

    9Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

    10We grope for the wall like the blind; yea, we grope as they that have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among them that are lusty we are as dead men.

    11We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

  • Jer 6:14
    75%

    14They have healed also the hurt of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

  • Jer 30:5
    74%

    5For thus saith Jehovah: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

  • Lam 4:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

    18They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

  • Dan 9:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet have we not entreated the favor of Jehovah our God, that we should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in thy truth.

    14Therefore hath Jehovah watched over the evil, and brought it upon us; for Jehovah our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth, and we have not obeyed his voice.

  • Isa 8:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    21And they shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward:

    22and they shall look unto the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven away.

  • Job 30:26
    73%

    26When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness.

  • 2 Chr 29:8
    72%

    8Wherefore the wrath of Jehovah was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to be tossed to and fro, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

  • Jer 6:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

    24We have heard the report thereof; our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.

    25Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side.

  • Hab 3:16
    72%

    16I heard, and my body trembled, My lips quivered at the voice; Rottenness entereth into my bones, and I tremble in my place; Because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, For the coming up of the people that invadeth us.

  • Lam 3:47
    72%

    47Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.

  • Jer 8:20
    72%

    20The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

  • Isa 33:7
    72%

    7Behold, their valiant ones cry without; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.

  • Isa 17:14
    72%

    14At eventide, behold, terror; [and] before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that despoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

  • Isa 33:2
    71%

    2O Jehovah, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou our arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

  • Jer 17:15
    71%

    15Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of Jehovah? let it come now.

  • Lam 5:5
    71%

    5Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

  • Jer 8:16
    71%

    16The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembleth; for they are come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it; the city and those that dwell therein.

  • Jer 4:8
    71%

    8For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned back from us.

  • Mic 1:12
    71%

    12For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good, because evil is come down from Jehovah unto the gate of Jerusalem.

  • Jer 9:19
    71%

    19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.

  • Lam 5:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.

    16The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.

  • Jer 8:18
    70%

    18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.

  • Jer 4:10
    70%

    10Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the life.

  • Lam 1:20
    70%

    20Behold, O Jehovah; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

  • Isa 48:22
    70%

    22There is no peace, saith Jehovah, to the wicked.

  • Ps 144:14
    70%

    14[ When] our oxen are well laden; [When there is] no breaking in, and no going forth, And no outcry in our streets:

  • Isa 24:16
    70%

    16From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs: Glory to the righteous. But I said, I pine away, I pine away, woe is me! the treacherous have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.

  • Lam 5:8
    70%

    8Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

  • Job 3:26
    70%

    26I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble cometh.

  • Jer 25:37
    70%

    37And the peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.

  • Isa 28:15
    70%

    15Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

  • Jer 16:10
    70%

    10And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt show this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath Jehovah pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against Jehovah our God?

  • Zech 8:10
    70%

    10For before those days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in, because of the adversary: for I set all men every one against his neighbor.

  • Jer 4:21
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    21How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?