15Peace is looked for, and there is no good; a time of healing, and behold, terror.


In Context

12 Are they ashamed that they have committed abomination? Nay, they are not at all ashamed, and they know not how to blush. Therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall stumble, saith Jehovah.

13 I will utterly take them away, saith Jehovah: there are no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig-tree; and the leaf is faded: and I will give them up to those that shall pass over them.

14 Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fenced 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.

15 Peace is looked for, and there is no good; a time of healing, and behold, terror.

16 The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: the whole land trembleth at the sound of the neighing of his steeds, and they come, and devour the land, and all it contains, the city and those that dwell therein.

17 For behold, I send among you serpents, vipers against which there is no charm, and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.

Jeremiah 8:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:15We looked for peace, but no good [came; and] for a time of health, and behold trouble!

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:15We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing but there was only terror.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:15We looked for peace and no good came: for a time of healing, and behold fear.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:15We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:15We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:15We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold dismay!

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:15We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold, trouble!

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:15We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:15Looking for peace — and there is no good, For a time of healing, and lo, terror.