Jeremiah 8:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Jer 14:19 : 19 Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You struck us down, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, but behold, trouble!
  • Mic 1:12 : 12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited for good, but evil came down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.
  • 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 For when they say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
  • Jer 4:10 : 10 Then I said: Ah, Lord GOD! surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, You shall have peace; whereas the sword reaches to the soul.
  • Jer 8:11 : 11 For 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%

    19 Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You struck us down, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, but behold, trouble!

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

  • Ezek 7:25
    77%

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

  • Jer 8:11
    77%

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

  • Jer 8:14
    77%

    14 Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us bitter water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 15:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

    5 And in those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in, but great troubles were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.

    6 And nation was destroyed by nation, and city by city; for God troubled them with all adversity.

  • Isa 59:8-11
    4 verses
    76%

    8 The way of peace they do not know; and there is no justice in their paths: they have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever walks therein shall not know peace.

    9 Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us: we wait for light, but see obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

    10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon as in the night; we are in desolate places like dead men.

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

  • Jer 6:14
    75%

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

  • Jer 30:5
    74%

    5 For thus says the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

  • Lam 4:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17 As for us, our eyes failed as we watched for a nation that could not save us.

    18 They hunted our steps, so that we could not walk in our streets; our end drew near, our days were fulfilled, for our end came.

  • Dan 9:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us: yet we have not made our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth.

    14 Therefore the LORD has watched over the calamity, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all His works which He does: for we have not obeyed His voice.

  • Isa 8:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    21 And they shall pass through it, hard-pressed and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

    22 And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into darkness.

  • Job 30:26
    73%

    26 When I looked for good, then evil came to me; and when I waited for light, darkness came.

  • 2 Chr 29:8
    72%

    8 Therefore, the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as you see with your eyes.

  • Jer 6:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

    24 We have heard the report, our hands grow weak; anguish has taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in labor.

    25 Do not go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.

  • Hab 3:16
    72%

    16 When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice; decay entered my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble. When he comes up to the people, he will invade them with his troops.

  • Lam 3:47
    72%

    47 Fear and a snare have come upon us, desolation and destruction.

  • Jer 8:20
    72%

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

  • Isa 33:7
    72%

    7 Behold, their brave ones cry aloud; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.

  • Isa 17:14
    72%

    14 And behold, at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of those who spoil us, and the lot of those who rob us.

  • Isa 33:2
    71%

    2 O LORD, be gracious to us; we have waited for you. Be their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

  • Jer 17:15
    71%

    15 Behold, they say to me, Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now.

  • Lam 5:5
    71%

    5 Our necks are under persecution; we labor and have no rest.

  • Jer 8:16
    71%

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

  • Jer 4:8
    71%

    8 For this gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.

  • Mic 1:12
    71%

    12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited for good, but evil came down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.

  • Jer 9:19
    71%

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

  • Lam 5:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

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

    16 The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!

  • Jer 8:18
    70%

    18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

  • Jer 4:10
    70%

    10 Then I said: Ah, Lord GOD! surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, You shall have peace; whereas the sword reaches to the soul.

  • Lam 1:20
    70%

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

  • Isa 48:22
    70%

    22 There is no peace, says the LORD, for the wicked.

  • Ps 144:14
    70%

    14 That our oxen may be strong to labor; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.

  • Isa 24:16
    70%

    16 From the uttermost part of the earth we have heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, 'My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! The treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; indeed, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.'

  • Lam 5:8
    70%

    8 Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.

  • Job 3:26
    70%

    26 I was not in safety, nor had I rest, nor was I quiet; yet trouble came.

  • Jer 25:37
    70%

    37 And the peaceful habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

  • Isa 28:15
    70%

    15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we in agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come to us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hidden ourselves:

  • Jer 16:10
    70%

    10 And it shall come to pass, when you show this people all these words, and they say to you, Why has the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?

  • Zech 8:10
    70%

    10 For before these days there was no wage for man, nor any wage for beast; neither was there any peace for him who went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men, everyone against his neighbor.

  • Jer 4:21
    70%

    21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?