Jeremiah 8:15

American Standard Version

We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

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Jeremiah 8:15 in other translations

We looked for peace, but no good came;
and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!

Jeremiah 8:15 · World English Bible

Jeremiah 8:15 in context

  1. 13I will utterly consume them, saith Jehovah: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig-tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.
  2. 14Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Jehovah our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.
  3. 15We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
  4. 16The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembleth; for they are come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it; the city and those that dwell therein.
  5. 17For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.