Jeremiah 8:15

New American Bible - revised edition

We wait for peace to no avail; for a time of healing, but terror comes instead.

Cross References

Job 30:26

Yet when I looked for good, evil came; when I expected light, darkness came.

Jeremiah 12:12

Upon every height in the wilderness marauders have appeared. The Lord has a sword that consumes the land from end to end: no peace for any living thing.

Jeremiah 14:19

Have you really cast Judah off? Is Zion loathsome to you? Why have you struck us a blow that cannot be healed? We wait for peace, to no avail; for a time of healing, but terror comes instead.

Jeremiah 4:10

“Ah! Lord God,” they will say, “You really did deceive us When you said: You shall have peace, while the sword was at our very throats.”

Jeremiah 6:25

Do not go out into the field, do not step into the street, For the enemy has a sword; terror on every side!

Jeremiah 8:11

They have treated lightly the injury to the daughter of my people: “Peace, peace!” they say, though there is no peace.

Ezekiel 7:25

When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there is none.

Micah 1:12

The inhabitants of Maroth hope for good, But evil has come down from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When people are saying, “Peace and security,” then sudden disaster comes upon them, like labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.