Jeremiah 8:15
We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
BSB
ASV
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
KJV
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
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1 Thessalonians 5:3While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
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But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.
Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man:
As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow…
They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,
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Jeremiah 8:11They dress the wound of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.
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They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.
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Jeremiah 14:19Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of…
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unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.
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Micah 1:12For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.
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Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of…