World English Bible
"They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace."
— Jeremiah 8:11, World English Bible
“For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.”
“And they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. ”
“They offer only superficial help for the hurt my dear people have suffered. They say,“Everything will be all right!” But everything is not all right!”
“And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people disgracefully, saying: Peace, peace: when there was no peace.”
“And they have made little of the wounds of the daughter of Zion, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.”
“For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.”
How do you say, We are wise, and the law of Yahweh is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely.
The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what kind of wisdom is in them?
Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall possess them: for everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely.
They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
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.
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.
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.