Jeremiah Chapter 8 verse 15 Holy Bible
We looked for peace, but no good came; `and' for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
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We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.
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Peace is looked for, and there is no good; a time of healing, and behold, terror.
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We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
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We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
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Looking for peace -- and there is no good, For a time of healing, and lo, terror.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 15. - Health; rather, healing. Another rendering is tranquility (same sense as in Ecclesiastes 10:4). Trouble; rather, terror.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(15) A time of health . . .--Better, healing, or, following another etymology, a time of quietness, and behold alarm. "Peace," in the first clause, is used in its wider sense as including all forms of good.