Jeremiah 8:15

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Looking for peace -- and there is no good, For a time of healing, and lo, terror.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 14:19 : 19 Hast Thou utterly rejected Judah? Zion hath Thy soul loathed? Wherefore hast Thou smitten us, And there is no healing to us? Looking for peace, and there is no good, And for a time of healing, and lo, terror.
  • Mic 1:12 : 12 For stayed for good hath the inhabitant of Maroth, For evil hath come down from Jehovah to the gate of Jerusalem.
  • 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail `doth' her who is with child, and they shall not escape;
  • Jer 4:10 : 10 And I say, `Ah, Lord Jehovah, Surely thou hast entirely forgotten this people and Jerusalem, saying, Peace is for you, And struck hath a sword unto the soul!'
  • Jer 8:11 : 11 And they heal the breach of the daughter of my people slightly, Saying, Peace, peace! and there is no peace.

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    19Hast Thou utterly rejected Judah? Zion hath Thy soul loathed? Wherefore hast Thou smitten us, And there is no healing to us? Looking for peace, and there is no good, And for a time of healing, and lo, terror.

    20We have known, O Jehovah, our wickedness, The iniquity of our fathers, For we have sinned against Thee.

  • Ezek 7:25
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    25Destruction hath come, And they have sought peace, and there is none.

  • Jer 8:11
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    11And they heal the breach of the daughter of my people slightly, Saying, Peace, peace! and there is no peace.

  • Jer 8:14
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    14Wherefore are we sitting still? Be gathered, and we go in to the fenced cities, And we are silent there, For Jehovah our God hath made us silent, Yea, He causeth us to drink water of gall, For we have sinned against Jehovah.

  • 2 Chr 15:5-6
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    5and in those times there is no peace to him who is going out, and to him who is coming in, for many troubles `are' on all the inhabitants of the lands,

    6and they have been beaten down, nation by nation, and city by city, for God hath troubled them with every adversity;

  • Isa 59:8-11
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    76%

    8A way of peace they have not known, And there is no judgment in their paths, Their paths they have made perverse for themselves, No treader in it hath known peace.

    9Therefore hath judgment been far from us, And righteousness reacheth us not, We wait for light, and lo, darkness, For brightness -- in thick darkness we go,

    10We feel like the blind `for' the wall, Yea, as without eyes we feel, We have stumbled at noon as at twilight, In desolate places as the dead.

    11We make a noise as bears -- all of us, And as doves we coo sorely; We wait for judgment, and there is none, For salvation -- it hath been far from us.

  • Jer 6:14
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    14And they heal the breach of the daughter of my people slightly, Saying, `Peace, peace!' and there is no peace.

  • Jer 30:5
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    5Surely thus said Jehovah: A voice of trembling we have heard, Fear -- and there is no peace.

  • Lam 4:17-18
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    17While we exist -- consumed are our eyes for our vain help, In our watch-tower we have watched for a nation `that' saveth not.

    18They have hunted our steps from going in our broad-places, Near hath been our end, fulfilled our days, For come hath our end.

  • Dan 9:13-14
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    13as it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil hath come upon us, and we have not appeased the face of Jehovah our God to turn back from our iniquities, and to act wisely in Thy truth.

    14And Jehovah doth watch for the evil, and bringeth it upon us, for righteous `is' Jehovah our God concerning all His works that He hath done, and we have not hearkened to His voice.

  • Isa 8:21-22
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    21-- And it hath passed over into it, hardened and hungry, And it hath come to pass, That it is hungry, and hath been wroth, And made light of its king, and of its God, And hath looked upwards.

    22And unto the land it looketh attentively, And lo, adversity and darkness! -- Dimness, distress, and thick darkness is driven away, But not the dimness for which she is in distress!

  • Job 30:26
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    26When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.

  • 2 Chr 29:8
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    8and the wrath of Jehovah is on Judah and Jerusalem, and He giveth them for a trembling, for an astonishment, and for a hissing, as ye are seeing with your eyes.

  • Jer 6:24-25
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    72%

    24`We have heard its sound, feeble have been our hands, Distress hath seized us, pain as of a travailing woman.

    25Go not forth to the field, And in the way walk not, For a sword hath the enemy, fear `is' round about.

  • Hab 3:16
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    16I have heard, and my belly trembleth, At the noise have my lips quivered, Rottenness doth come into my bones, And in my place I do tremble, That I rest for a day of distress, At the coming up of the people, he overcometh it.

  • Lam 3:47
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    47Fear and a snare hath been for us, Desolation and destruction.

  • Jer 8:20
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    20Harvest hath passed, summer hath ended, And we -- we have not been saved.

  • Isa 33:7
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    7Lo, `Their Ariel,' they have cried without, Messengers of peace do weep bitterly.

  • Isa 17:14
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    14At even-time, lo, terror, before morning it is not, This `is' the portion of our spoilers, And the lot of our plunderers!

  • Isa 33:2
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    2O Jehovah, favour us, for thee we have waited, Be their arm, in the mornings, Yea, our salvation in time of adversity.

  • Jer 17:15
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    15Lo, they are saying unto me: `Where `is' the word of Jehovah? pray, let it come.'

  • Lam 5:5
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    5For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us.

  • Jer 8:16
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    16From Dan hath been heard the snorting of his horses, From the voice of the neighings of his mighty ones, Trembled hath all the land, And they come in and consume the land and its fulness, The city and the inhabitants in it.

  • Jer 4:8
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    8For this, gird on sackcloth, lament and howl, For the fierce anger of Jehovah hath not turned back from us.

  • Mic 1:12
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    12For stayed for good hath the inhabitant of Maroth, For evil hath come down from Jehovah to the gate of Jerusalem.

  • Jer 9:19
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    19For -- a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: How have we been spoiled! We have been greatly ashamed, Because we have forsaken the land, Because they have cast down our tabernacles.

  • Lam 5:15-16
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    15Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.

    16Fallen hath the crown `from' our head, Wo `is' now to us, for we have sinned.

  • Jer 8:18
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    18My refreshing for me `is' sorrow, For me my heart `is' sick.

  • Jer 4:10
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    10And I say, `Ah, Lord Jehovah, Surely thou hast entirely forgotten this people and Jerusalem, saying, Peace is for you, And struck hath a sword unto the soul!'

  • Lam 1:20
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    20See, O Jehovah, for distress `is' to me, My bowels have been troubled, Turned hath been my heart in my midst, For I have greatly provoked, From without bereaved hath the sword, In the house `it is' as death.

  • Isa 48:22
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    22There is no peace, said Jehovah, to the wicked!

  • Ps 144:14
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    14Our oxen are carrying, there is no breach, And there is no outgoing, And there is no crying in our broad places.

  • Isa 24:16
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    16From the skirt of the earth we heard songs, The desire of the righteous. And I say, `Leanness `is' to me, Leanness `is' to me, wo `is' to me.' Treacherous dealers dealt treacherously, Yea, treachery, treacherous dealers dealt treacherously.

  • Lam 5:8
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    8Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.

  • Job 3:26
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    26I was not safe -- nor was I quiet -- Nor was I at rest -- and trouble cometh!

  • Jer 25:37
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    37And the peaceable habitations have been cut down, Because of the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah.

  • Isa 28:15
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    15Because ye have said: `We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we have made a provision, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Doth not meet us, Though we have made a lie our refuge, And in falsehood have been hidden.'

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    10And it hath come to pass when thou declarest to this people all these words, and they have said unto thee, `For what hath Jehovah spoken against us all this great evil? yea, what `is' our iniquity, and what our sin, that we have sinned against Jehovah our God?'

  • Zech 8:10
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    10For, before those days there hath been no hiring of man, Yea, a hiring of beasts there is none; And to him who is going out, And to him who is coming in, There is no peace because of the adversary, And I send all men -- each against his neighbour.

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    21Till when do I see an ensign? Do I hear the voice of a trumpet?