Jeremiah 8:15

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Jeremiah 14:19

Have thou utterly rejected Judah? Has thy soul loathed Zion? Why have 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

For when they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction approaches them, as the woman having birth pangs in her womb, and they will, no, not escape.

Micah 1:12

For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 8:11

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

Jeremiah 4:10

Then I said, Ah, lord LORD! Surely thou have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace, whereas the sword reaches to the life.

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 the sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side.

Jeremiah 12:12

Destroyers have come upon all the bare heights in the wilderness. For the sword of LORD devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land. No flesh has peace.

Ezekiel 7:25

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