Jeremiah 8:15

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

We look for peace but find no good, for a time of healing, but there is terror instead.

Cross References

Job 30:26

But when I looked for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, darkness came.

Jeremiah 12:12

Upon all the bare heights in the desert, spoilers have come, for the sword of the Lord devours from one end of the land to the other; no one shall be safe.

Jeremiah 14:19

Have you completely rejected Judah? Does your heart loathe Zion? Why have you struck us down so that there is no healing for us? We look for peace but find no good, for a time of healing, but there is terror instead.

Jeremiah 4:10

Then I said, “Ah, Lord God, how utterly you have deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘It shall be well with you,’ even while the sword is at the throat!”

Jeremiah 6:25

Do not go out into the field or walk on the road, for the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.”

Jeremiah 8:11

They have treated the wound of the daughter of my people carelessly, saying, “Peace, peace,” when there is no peace.

Ezekiel 7:25

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

Micah 1:12

For the inhabitants of Maroth wait anxiously for good, yet disaster has come down from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there will be no escape!