Jeremiah 8:15

World English Bible (2000)

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 Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you struck 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 waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.
  • 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.
  • Jer 4:10 : 10 Then I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh! Surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, 'You shall have peace;' whereas the sword reaches to the heart."
  • Jer 8:11 : 11 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, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!

    20 We acknowledge, Yahweh, 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 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, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.

  • 2 Chr 15:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

    5 In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the lands.

    6 They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God troubled them with all adversity.

  • Isa 59:8-11
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    76%

    8 The way of peace they don't know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace.

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

    10 We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.

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

  • Jer 6:14
    75%

    14 They have healed also the hurt of my people superficially, saying, 'Peace, peace!' when there is no peace.

  • Jer 30:5
    74%

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

  • Lam 4:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

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

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

  • Dan 9:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

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

    14 Therefore has Yahweh watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.

  • Isa 8:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    21 They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry; and it will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,

    22 and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

  • Job 30:26
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    26 When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.

  • 2 Chr 29:8
    72%

    8 Therefore the wrath of Yahweh was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.

  • Jer 6:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

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

    25 Don't go 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%

    16 I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters 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 who invade us.

  • Lam 3:47
    72%

    47 Fear and the pit are come on us, devastation 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 valiant ones cry outside; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.

  • Isa 17:14
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    14 At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.

  • Isa 33:2
    71%

    2 Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

  • Jer 17:15
    71%

    15 Behold, they tell me, Where is the word of Yahweh? let it come now.

  • Lam 5:5
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    5 Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

  • Jer 8:16
    71%

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

  • Jer 4:8
    71%

    8 For this clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn't turned back from us.

  • Mic 1:12
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    12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from Yahweh 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 they have cast down our dwellings.

  • Lam 5:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

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

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

  • Jer 8:18
    70%

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

  • Jer 4:10
    70%

    10 Then I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh! Surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, 'You shall have peace;' whereas the sword reaches to the heart."

  • Lam 1:20
    70%

    20 See, Yahweh; 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
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    22 "There is no peace," says Yahweh, "for the wicked."

  • Ps 144:14
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    14 Our oxen will pull heavy loads. There is no breaking in, and no going away, and no outcry in our streets.

  • Isa 24:16
    70%

    16 From 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. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.

  • Lam 5:8
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    8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

  • Job 3:26
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    26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes."

  • Jer 25:37
    70%

    37 The peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.

  • Isa 28:15
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    15 "Because you have said, 'We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won't come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.'"

  • Jer 16:10
    70%

    10 It shall happen, when you shall show this people all these words, and they shall tell you, Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our God?

  • Zech 8:10
    70%

    10 For before those days there was no wages for man, nor any wages for an animal; neither was there any peace to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men everyone against his neighbor.

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