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Jeremiah 8:15

in Jeremiah 8

We 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!

This verse in Jeremiah 8

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This 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

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah · Written before 420.

proposed

(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

Health ... trouble - Or, “rest ... terror.”

The words behind it

8 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • 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 stops

Each 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 5:3

    While 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,

  • Through

    Jeremiah 8:11

    They 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.

  • Through

    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…

    it leads to

    • Lamentations 5:22

      unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.

  • Through

    Micah 1:12

    For 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…

Where this verse is studied

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About Jeremiah

Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.

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.