Jeremiah 8:15

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

Job 30:26

I expected good things, but evil things have come to me. I stood ready for light, yet darkness burst forth.

Jeremiah 12:12

The devastators have arrived, over all the ways of the wilderness. For the sword of the Lord will devour, from one end of the earth even to its furthest limits. There is no peace for all that is flesh.

Jeremiah 14:19

Could you have utterly cast out Judah? Or has your soul abhorred Zion? Then why have you struck us, so much so that there is no health for us? We have waited for peace, but there is nothing good, and for the time of healing, and behold, trouble.

Jeremiah 4:10

And I said: "Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God! Could it be that you have deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying: 'Peace shall be yours,' while, behold, the sword reaches even to the soul?"

Jeremiah 6:25

Do not choose to go out into the fields, and you should not walk along the roadway. For the sword and the terror of the enemy is on every side.

Jeremiah 8:11

And they healed the destruction of the daughter of my people with disgrace, by saying: 'Peace, peace,' though there was no peace.

Ezekiel 7:25

When anguish overwhelms them, they will seek peace, and there will be none.

Micah 1:12

For she has been weakened in goodness, who dwells in bitterness. For disaster has descended from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

For when they will say, "Peace and security!" then destruction will suddenly overwhelm them, like the labor pains of a woman with child, and they will not escape.