Jeremiah 8:15

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

Cross References

Job 30:26

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

Jeremiah 12:12

Destroyers have come upon all the bare heights in the desert, for the sword of the Lord devours from one end of the land even to the other; no flesh has peace or can find the means to escape.

Jeremiah 14:19

[O Lord] have You utterly rejected Judah? Do You loathe Zion? Why have You smitten us so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace and completeness, but no good came, and for a time of healing, but behold, dismay, disaster, and terror!

Jeremiah 4:10

Then I [Jeremiah] said, Alas, Lord God! Surely You have greatly deceived and misled this people and Jerusalem, [for the prophets represented You as] saying [to Your people], You shall have peace, whereas the sword has reached to [their very] life.

Jeremiah 6:25

Go not out into the field nor walk on the road, for the enemy is armed with the sword; terror is on every side.

Jeremiah 8:11

For they have healed the wound of the daughter of My people only lightly and slightingly, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace.

Ezekiel 7:25

Distress, panic, and destruction shall come, and they [of Judah] shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

Micah 1:12

For the inhabitant of Maroth [bitterness] writhes in pain [at its losses] and waits anxiously for good, because evil comes down from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When people are saying, All is well and secure, and, There is peace and safety, then in a moment unforeseen destruction (ruin and death) will come upon them as suddenly as labor pains come upon a woman with child; and they shall by no means escape, for there will be no escape.