Jeremiah 8:15 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁵ We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold dismay!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ We looked for peace and completeness, but no good came, and for a time of healing, but behold, dismay, trouble, and terror!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

Common English Bible

¹⁵ We longed for relief, but received none; for a time of healing, but found only terror.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ We expected peace, but there was nothing good. We expected a time of health, and behold, dread."

Jeremiah 8:15 Cross References

Jeremiah 14:19

Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten 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!

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.

Micah 1:12

For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good: because evil is come down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 8:11

And they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people lightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

Jeremiah 4:10

Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.

Job 30:26

When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Jeremiah 6:25

Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for there is the sword of the enemy, and terror on every side.

Jeremiah 12:12

Spoilers are come upon all the bare heights in the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD devoureth from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh hath peace.

Ezekiel 7:25

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