King James Version with Apocrypha
"We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!"
— Jeremiah 8:15, King James Version with Apocrypha
“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.”
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.
I will surely consume them, saith the Lord: there shall be no grapes 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 defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.