Jeremiah 8:15
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!In other versions
We looked for peace, but no good came; `and' for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
ASV
We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.
BBE
Peace is looked for, and there is no good; a time of healing, and behold, terror.
DBY
We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
WEB
Looking for peace -- and there is no good, For a time of healing, and lo, terror.
YLT
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
ENG
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold, trouble!
WBT
We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
BSB
In context
13I 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.
14Why 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.
15We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
16The 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.
17For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.