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


In Context

12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among those who fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says Yahweh.

13 I will utterly consume them, says Yahweh: no grapes shall be 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.

14 Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.

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

16 The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembles; for they are come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it; the city and those who dwell therein.

17 For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, says Yahweh.

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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:15Peace is looked for, and there is no good; a time of healing, and behold, terror.

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 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.