Catholic Public Domain Version
"We expected peace, but there was nothing good. We expected a time of health, and behold, dread.” "
— Jeremiah 8:15, Catholic Public Domain Version
“We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!”
“We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay! ”
“We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!”
“We hoped for good fortune, but nothing good has come of it. We hoped for a time of relief, but instead we experience terror.”
“We looked for peace and no good came: for a time of healing, and behold fear.”
“We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.”
“We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!”
They have been confounded because they committed abomination. Or rather, they have not been confounded with shame, for they do not know how to blush. For this reason, they will fall among the fallen. In the time of their visitation, they will fall, says the Lord.
When gathering, I will gather them together, says the Lord. There are no grapes on the vine, and there are no figs on the fig tree. The leaves have fallen. And I have given them the things that have passed away.”
“Why are we sitting still? Assemble, and let us enter the fortified city, and let us remain silent there. For the Lord our God has brought us to silence, and he has given us the water of gall as a drink. For we have sinned against the Lord.
We expected peace, but there was nothing good. We expected a time of health, and behold, dread.”
“From Dan, the snorting of his horses was heard; the entire land was shaken by the voice of the neighing of his fighters. And they arrived and devoured the land and its plenitude, the city and its inhabitants.
For behold, I will send among you serpents, king snakes, against which there is no charm, and they will bite you, says the Lord.
My sorrow is beyond sorrow; my heart mourns within me.