32 Bible Verses about No Peace
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And because his brothers saw that Joseph was dearer to his father than all the others, they were full of hate for him, and would not say a kind word to him.
For they do not say words of peace; in their deceit they are designing evil things against the quiet ones in the land.
Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.
There is no peace, says the Lord, for the evil-doers.
Those who make waste have come on all the open hilltops in the waste land; for the sword of the Lord sends destruction from one end of the land to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.
For this is what the Lord has said: Do not go into the house of sorrow, do not go to make weeping or songs of grief for them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the Lord, even mercy and pity.
My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.
So now do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or do anything for their peace or well-being for ever; so that you may be strong, living on the good of the land, and handing it on to your children for a heritage for ever.
They have no knowledge of the way of peace, and there is no sense of what is right in their behaviour: they have made for themselves ways which are not straight; whoever goes in them has no knowledge of peace.
Shaking fear is coming; and they will be looking for peace, and there will be no peace.
This is what the Lord has said: A voice of shaking fear has come to our ears, of fear and not of peace.
Saying, If you, even you, had knowledge today, of the things which give peace! but you are not able to see them.
For before those days there was no payment for a man's work, or for the use of a beast, and there was no peace for him who went out or him who came in, because of the attacker: for I had every man turned against his neighbour.
And if the house is good enough, let your peace come on it: but if not, let your peace come back to you.
Without natural love, bitter haters, saying evil of others, violent and uncontrolled, hating all good,
Then I said, Ah, Lord God! see, the prophets say to them, You will not see the sword or be short of food; but I will give you certain peace in this place.
And they have made little of the wounds of my people, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
And they have made little of the wounds of the daughter of Zion, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Because, even because they have been guiding my people into error, saying, Peace; when there is no peace; and in the building of a division wall they put whitewash on it:
Even the prophets of Israel who say words to Jerusalem, who see visions of peace for her when there is no peace, says the Lord.
We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.
Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.
Then said I, Ah, Lord God! your words were not true when you said to this people and to Jerusalem, You will have peace; when the sword has come even to the soul.
This is what the Lord has said about the prophets by whom my people have been turned from the right way; who, biting with their teeth, say, Peace; and if anyone puts nothing in their mouths they make ready for war against him.
They keep on saying to those who have no respect for the word of the Lord, You will have peace; and to everyone who goes on his way in the pride of his heart, they say, No evil will come to you.
The prophet whose words are of peace, when his words come true, will be seen to be a prophet whom the Lord has sent.
When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.
Do not have the thought that I have come to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.
Is it your opinion that I have come to give peace on earth? I say to you, No, but division: