Jeremiah 8:15
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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Referenced Verses
- Jer 14:19 : 19 Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.
- Mic 1:12 : 12 For the one living in Maroth is waiting for good: for evil has come down from the Lord to the doorways of Jerusalem.
- 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.
- Jer 4:10 : 10 Then said I, Ah, Lord God! your words were not true when you said to this people and to Jerusalem, You will have peace; when the sword has come even to the soul.
- Jer 8:11 : 11 And they have made little of the wounds of the daughter of Zion, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
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19 Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.
20 We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you.
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25 Shaking fear is coming; and they will be looking for peace, and there will be no peace.
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11 And they have made little of the wounds of the daughter of Zion, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
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14 Why are we seated doing nothing? come together, and let us go to the walled towns, and let destruction overtake us there, for the Lord our God has sent destruction on us, and given us bitter water for our drink, because we have done evil against the Lord.
- 2 Chr 15:5-62 verses76%
5 In those times there was no peace for him who went out or for him who came in, but great trouble was on all the people of the lands.
6 And they were broken by divisions, nation against nation and town against town, because God sent all sorts of trouble on them.
- Isa 59:8-114 verses76%
8 They have no knowledge of the way of peace, and there is no sense of what is right in their behaviour: they have made for themselves ways which are not straight; whoever goes in them has no knowledge of peace.
9 For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in the night.
10 We go on our way, like blind men feeling for the wall, even like those who have no eyes: we are running against things in daylight as if it was evening; our place is in the dark like dead men.
11 We make noises of grief, like bears, and sad sounds like doves: we are looking for our right, but it is not there; for salvation, but it is far from us.
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14 And they have made little of the wounds of my people, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
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5 This is what the Lord has said: A voice of shaking fear has come to our ears, of fear and not of peace.
- Lam 4:17-182 verses74%
17 Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.
18 They go after our steps so that we may not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are numbered; for our end has come.
- Dan 9:13-142 verses73%
13 As it was recorded in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us: but we have made no prayer for grace from the Lord our God that we might be turned from our evil doings and come to true wisdom.
14 So the Lord has been watching over this evil and has made it come on us: for the Lord our God is upright in all his acts which he has done, and we have not given ear to his voice.
- Isa 8:21-222 verses73%
21 And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high;
22 And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.
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26 For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.
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8 And so the wrath of the Lord has come on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has given them up to be a cause of fear and wonder and shame, as your eyes have seen.
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24 The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.
25 Go not out into the field or by the way; for there is the sword of the attacker, and fear on every side.
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16 Hearing it, my inner parts were moved, and my lips were shaking at the sound; my bones became feeble, and my steps were uncertain under me: I gave sounds of grief in the day of trouble, when his forces came up against the people in bands.
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47 Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction.
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20 The grain-cutting is past, the summer is ended, and no salvation has come to us.
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7 See, the men of war are sorrowing outside the town: those who came looking for peace are weeping bitterly.
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14 In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.
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2 O Lord, have mercy on us; for we have been waiting for your help: be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of trouble.
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15 See, they say to me, Where is the word of the Lord? let it come now.
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5 Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.
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16 The loud breathing of the horses comes to our ears from Dan: at the sound of the outcry of his war-horses, all the land is shaking with fear; for they have come, and have made a meal of the land and everything in it; the town and the people living in it.
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8 For this put on haircloth, with weeping and loud crying: for the burning wrath of the Lord is not turned back from us.
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12 For the one living in Maroth is waiting for good: for evil has come down from the Lord to the doorways of Jerusalem.
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19 For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house.
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15 The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.
16 The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.
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18 Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.
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10 Then said I, Ah, Lord God! your words were not true when you said to this people and to Jerusalem, You will have peace; when the sword has come even to the soul.
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20 See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.
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22 There is no peace, says the Lord, for the evil-doers.
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14 Our oxen are well weighted down; our cows give birth safely; there is no going out, and there is no cry of sorrow in our open places.
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16 From the farthest part of the earth comes the sound of songs, glory to the upright. But I said, I am wasting away, wasting away, the curse is on me! The false ones go on in their false way, yes, they go on acting falsely.
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8 Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.
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26 I have no peace, no quiet, and no rest; nothing but pain comes on me.
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37 And there is no sound in the fields of peace, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.
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15 Because you have said, We have made death our friend, and with the underworld we have made an agreement; when the overflowing waters come through they will not come near us; for we are looking to false words for help, taking cover in what is untrue:
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10 And it will be, that when you say all these words to the people, then they will say to you, Why has the Lord done all this evil against us? what is our wrongdoing and what is our sin which we have done against the Lord our God?
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10 For before those days there was no payment for a man's work, or for the use of a beast, and there was no peace for him who went out or him who came in, because of the attacker: for I had every man turned against his neighbour.
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21 How long will I go on seeing the flag and hearing the sound of the war-horn?