Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
We looked for peace, and we fair not the better; we waited for the time of health, and lo, here is nothing but trouble.
New American Standard Bible
For a time of healing, but behold, terror!
King James Version
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
Holman Bible
for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
International Standard Version
We waited for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but instead there was terror.
A Conservative Version
We looked for peace, but no good came, for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
American Standard Version
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
Amplified
We waited for peace and salvation, but no good came,
And for a time of healing, but behold, terror!
Bible in Basic English
We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.
Darby Translation
Peace is looked for, and there is no good; a time of healing, and behold, terror.
Julia Smith Translation
Hoping for peace, and no good; for a time of healing, and behold, terror.
King James 2000
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
Lexham Expanded Bible
[We] hope for peace, but there is no good, for a time of healing, but there is terror.
Modern King James verseion
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, but behold, trouble!
NET Bible
We hoped for good fortune, but nothing good has come of it. We hoped for a time of relief, but instead we experience terror.
New Heart English Bible
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay.
The Emphasized Bible
A waiting For prosperity, but no welfare, - For a time of healing, but lo! terror.
Webster
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold, trouble!
World English Bible
We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
Youngs Literal Translation
Looking for peace -- and there is no good, For a time of healing, and lo, terror.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 8:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Nation Longs For Yahweh's Help
14 Why prolong we the time? Let us gather ourselves together, and go into the strong city; there shall we be in rest. For the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water mixed with gall to drink: because we have sinned against him. 15 We looked for peace, and we fair not the better; we waited for the time of health, and lo, here is nothing but trouble. 16 "Then shall the noise of his horses be heard from Dan; the whole land shall be afraid at the neigh of his strong horses. For they shall go in, and devour the land, with all that is in it: the cities, and those that dwell therein.
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Jeremiah 14:19
"Hast thou then utterly forsaken Judah?" said I, "Doest thou so abhor Zion? Or hast thou so plagued us, that we can be healed no more? We looked for peace, and there cometh no good: for the time of health, and lo, here is nothing but trouble.
Jeremiah 4:10
Then said I, "O LORD God, hast thou then deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, 'Ye shall have peace,' and now the sword goeth through their lives?"
Jeremiah 8:11
Nevertheless, they heal the hurt of my people with sweet words, saying, 'Peace, peace,' where there is no peace at all.
Micah 1:12
The rebellious city hopeth that it shall not be so evil: but for all that, the plague shall come from the LORD, even in to the port of Jerusalem.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they shall say, "Peace, no danger," then cometh on them sudden destruction, as the travailing of a woman with child, and they shall not escape.