Jeremiah 8:15

Bishops' Bible (1568)

We loked for peace, and we fare not the better, we wayted for the tyme of health, and lo, here is nothing but trouble.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 14:19 : 19 Hast thou then vtterly forsaken Iuda? Doest thou so abhorre Sion? Wherfore hast thou so plagued vs, that we can be healed no more? We loked for peace, and there commeth no good, for the tyme of health, and lo here is nothyng but trouble.
  • Mic 1:12 : 12 For the inhabitautes of Maroth wayled for good, but the plague shall come from the Lorde, euen vnto the gates of Hierusalem.
  • 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 For when they shal say peace & safetie, then shall sodeyne destruction come vppon them, as sorowe vpon a woman with chylde, and they shall not escape.
  • Jer 4:10 : 10 Then sayde I: Oh Lorde God, hast thou then deceaued this people and Hierusalem, saying, Ye shall haue peace: and nowe the sworde goeth through their lyues?
  • Jer 8:11 : 11 Neuerthelesse, they heale the hurt of my people very slenderly, saying, peace, peace: where there is no peace at all.

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  • Jer 14:19-20
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    19 Hast thou then vtterly forsaken Iuda? Doest thou so abhorre Sion? Wherfore hast thou so plagued vs, that we can be healed no more? We loked for peace, and there commeth no good, for the tyme of health, and lo here is nothyng but trouble.

    20 We knowledge (O Lorde) all our misdeedes, and the sinnes of our fathers: for we haue offended thee.

  • Ezek 7:25
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    25 When destruction is come, they shall seeke peace, but they shall haue none.

  • Jer 8:11
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    11 Neuerthelesse, they heale the hurt of my people very slenderly, saying, peace, peace: where there is no peace at all.

  • Jer 8:14
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    14 Why prolong we the time? Let vs gather our selues together, and go into the strong citie, there shall we be in rest: for the Lorde our God hath put vs to scilence, and geuen vs water mixt with gall to drinke, because we haue sinned against hym.

  • 2 Chr 15:5-6
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    5 And in that time there was no peace to him that did go out and in, but great sedition was there among all the inhabiters of the earth.

    6 And nation was destroyed of nation, and citie of citie: for God did moue all aduersitie among them.

  • Isa 59:8-11
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    8 But the way of peace they know not, in their goinges is no equitie: their wayes are so crooked, that whosoeuer goeth therein knoweth of no peace.

    9 And this is the cause that equitie is so farre from vs, and that righteousnesse commeth not nie vs: We loke for light, lo it is darknesse: for the morning shine, see, we walke in the darke.

    10 We grope lyke the blinde vpon the wall, we grope euen as one that hath none eyes, we stumble at the noone day as though it were towarde night, in the falling places, lyke men that are halfe dead.

    11 We roare all like beares, and mourne still like doues: we looke for equitie, but there is none: for health, but it is farre from vs.

  • Jer 6:14
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    14 And beside that, they heale the hurt of my people with sweete wordes, saying, Peace, peace: when there is no peace at all.

  • Jer 30:5
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    5 Thus saith the Lorde, We haue heard a terrible crye, feare and disquietnesse.

  • Lam 4:17-18
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    17 Wherefore yet our eyes fayled vs, whyles we looked for our vayne helpe, seeing we euer wayted vpon a people that coulde do vs no good.

    18 They lay so sharpe wayte for vs, that we can not go safe vpon the streetes, for our ende is come, our dayes are fulfilled, our ende is here.

  • Dan 9:13-14
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    13 Yea, all this plague as it is written in the lawe of Moyses, is come vpon vs: yet made we not our prayers before the Lorde our God, that we might turne againe from our wickednes, and vnderstand thy trueth.

    14 Therfore hath the Lord watched vpon the plague, and brought it vpon vs: for the Lorde our God is righteous in all his workes which he doth: for we would not hearken vnto his voyce.

  • Isa 8:21-22
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    21 And they shall wander thorowe this lande hardly besteade and hungry, and when they suffer hunger, they wyll be out of pacience, and curse their king and their God, and shall loke vpwarde and downewarde to the earth,

    22 And beholde there is trouble and darknesse, dymnesse is rounde about him, & he shalbe driuen into darknesse.

  • Job 30:26
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    26 Yet neuerthelesse, where as I loked for good, euyll came vnto me: & where I wayted for light, there came darkenesse.

  • 2 Chr 29:8
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    8 Wherefore the wrath of the Lorde fell on Iuda & Hierusalem, and he hath brought them to trouble to be wondred on, & to be hissed at, euen as ye see with your eyes.

  • Jer 6:24-25
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    72%

    24 The fame of them haue we hearde, our armes are feeble, heauinesse and sorowe is come vpon vs, as vpon a woman trauayling with chylde.

    25 Let no man go foorth into the fielde, let no man come vpon the hye streete: for the sworde and feare of the enemie is on euery side.

  • Hab 3:16
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    16 When I hearde, my belly trembled, my lippes shoke at the voice, rottennesse entred into my bones, & I trembled in my selfe, that I might rest in the day of trouble: for when he commeth vp vnto the people, he shall destroy them.

  • Lam 3:47
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    47 Feare and pit is come vpon vs, yea deceipt and destruction.

  • Jer 8:20
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    20 The haruest is gone, the sommer hath an ende, and we are not helped.

  • Isa 33:7
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    7 Beholde the messengers shall crye without: and the embassadours of peace shall weepe bitterly.

  • Isa 17:14
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    14 At euen beholde there is trouble, and or euer it be mornyng lo it is gone: This is the portion of them that oppresse vs, and the lot of them that robbe vs.

  • Isa 33:2
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    2 O Lorde haue mercie vpon vs, we haue put our whole trust in thee: be an arme to such early, and our health in the tyme of trouble.

  • Jer 17:15
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    15 Beholde, these men say vnto me, where is the worde of the Lorde? let it come nowe.

  • Lam 5:5
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    5 Our neckes are vnder persecution, we are weery and haue no rest.

  • Jer 8:16
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    16 The noyse of his horses is heard from Dan, the whole lande is afraide at the neighing of his strong horses: for they are come in, and haue deuoured the lande, withall that is in it, the cities, and those that dwell therin.

  • Jer 4:8
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    8 Wherfore girde your selues about with sackcloth, mourne and weepe: for the fearefull wrath of the Lorde is not withdrawen from vs.

  • Mic 1:12
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    12 For the inhabitautes of Maroth wayled for good, but the plague shall come from the Lorde, euen vnto the gates of Hierusalem.

  • Jer 9:19
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    19 For there is a lamentable noyse heard of Sion: O howe are we so sore destroyed? O howe are we so pitiously confounded? We must forsake our owne naturall countrey, and we are shut out of our owne lodginges.

  • Lam 5:15-16
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    15 The ioy of our heart is gone, our melodious meeting is turned into mourning.

    16 The garlande of our head is fallen: alas that euer we sinned so sore.

  • Jer 8:18
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    18 I woulde haue had comfort against sorowe: but sorowe is come vpon me, and heauinesse vexeth my heart.

  • Jer 4:10
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    10 Then sayde I: Oh Lorde God, hast thou then deceaued this people and Hierusalem, saying, Ye shall haue peace: and nowe the sworde goeth through their lyues?

  • Lam 1:20
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    20 Consider (O Lorde) howe I am troubled, my wombe is disquieted, my heart turneth about in me, and I am full of heauinesse, because I rebelled stubburnly: the sworde hurteth me without, and within I am lyke vnto death.

  • Isa 48:22
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    22 As for the vngodly, they haue no peace, saith the Lorde.

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    14 That our oxen may be strong to labour that there be no decay: no leadyng into captiuitie, and no complaynyng in our streates.

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    16 From the vttermost part of the earth haue we hearde prayses and myrth, because of the righteous: And I sayde, I knowe a thing in secrete, I knowe a thing in secrete, wo is me: the transgressours haue offended, the transgressours haue greeuously offended.

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    8 Seruauntes haue the rule of vs, and no man deliuereth vs out of their handes.

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    26 Was I not happy? Had I not quietnesse? Was I not in rest? And nowe commeth such miserie vpon me.

  • Jer 25:37
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    37 And their best fieldes lye dead, because of the horrible wrath of the Lorde.

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    15 Because ye haue sayd, We haue made a couenaunt with death, and with hell are we at agreement: and though there go foorth a sore plague, it shall not come vnto vs, for we haue made falsehood our refuge, and vnder vanitie are we hid.

  • Jer 16:10
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    10 Nowe when thou shewest this people all these wordes, and they say vnto thee, Wherfore hath the Lord deuised all this great plague for vs? or what is the offence and sinne that we haue done agaynst the Lorde our God?

  • Zech 8:10
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    10 For before these dayes neither men nor cattaile could winne any thing, neither might any man come in and out in reste for trouble: but I let euery man go against his neighbour.

  • Jer 4:21
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    21 Howe long shall I see the tokens of warre, and heare the noyse of the trumpettes?