Jeremiah 8:15

Bible in Basic English 1965

We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.

Cross References

Jeremiah 14:19

Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.

Micah 1:12

For the one living in Maroth is waiting for good: for evil has come down from the Lord to the doorways of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 8:11

And they have made little of the wounds of the daughter of Zion, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

Jeremiah 4:10

Then said I, Ah, Lord God! your words were not true when you said to this people and to Jerusalem, You will have peace; when the sword has come even to the soul.

Job 30:26

For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.

Jeremiah 6:25

Go not out into the field or by the way; for there is the sword of the attacker, and fear on every side.

Jeremiah 12:12

Those who make waste have come on all the open hilltops in the waste land; for the sword of the Lord sends destruction from one end of the land to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.

Ezekiel 7:25

Shaking fear is coming; and they will be looking for peace, and there will be no peace.