Jeremiah 8:15
in Jeremiah 8We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
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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This verse in Jeremiah 8
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
We hoped for peace, but no good has come
on Jeremiah 8:15-17
The cry “We hoped for peace, but no good has come” answers the false prophets of 6:14 and 8:11. The invasion is announced by sound, “The snorting of enemy horses is heard from Dan”. The “vipers that cannot be charmed” picture an enemy immune to the usual remedies.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Vers. 14, 15.) Why are we sitting? Come together, and let us enter the fortified city or cities, and let us remain silent there or be cast out there, for our Lord has made us silent and has given us the drink of gall water. For we have sinned against the Lord, we have waited for peace, and it was not good: a time of healing, and behold, fear.
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
We looked for peace,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Health ... trouble - Or, “rest ... terror.”
The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| קַוֵּ֥ה | kaveh | we waited eagerly | H6960 → | 49 times |
| לְשָׁל֖וֹם | leshalom | for peace | H7965 → | 236 times |
| וְאֵ֣ין | veein | and there not | H369 → | 789 times |
| ט֑וֹב | tov | [was] good | H2896 → | 538 times |
| לְעֵ֥ת | leet | for a time of | H6256 → | 296 times |
| מַרְפֵּ֖ה | marpeh | healing | H4832 → | 16 times |
| וְהִנֵּ֥ה | vehineh | and there! | H2009 → | 843 times |
| בְעָתָֽה׃ | veatah | terror | H1205 → |
קַוֵּ֥הwe waited eagerly
kavehH6960 →49 times
לְשָׁל֖וֹםfor peace
leshalomH7965 →236 times
וְאֵ֣יןand there not
veeinH369 →789 times
ט֑וֹב[was] good
tovH2896 →538 times
לְעֵ֥תfor a time of
leetH6256 →296 times
מַרְפֵּ֖הhealing
marpehH4832 →16 times
וְהִנֵּ֥הand there!
vehinehH2009 →843 times
בְעָתָֽה׃terror
veatahH1205 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
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.
it leads to
- Luke 21:34–35
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.
- Matthew 24:37–39
As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.
- Luke 17:26–30
Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man:
- Revelation 18:7–8
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…
- 2 Thessalonians 1:9
They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,
- Luke 21:34–35
Through
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.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 6:14
They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.
- Jeremiah 6:14
Through
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…
it leads to
- Lamentations 5:22
unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.
- Lamentations 5:22
Through
Micah 1:12For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 14:19
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…
- Jeremiah 14:19
Where this verse is studied
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About Jeremiah

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
