“We looked for peace, but no good came;and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!”
Jeremiah 8:15 (WEB)
Context Reading
13“‘I will utterly consume them, says Yahweh.No grapes will be on the vine,no figs on the fig tree,and the leaf will fade.The things that I have given themwill pass away from them.’” 14“Why do we sit still?Assemble yourselves!Let’s enter into the fortified cities,and let’s be silent there;for Yahweh our God has put us to silence,and given us poisoned water to drink,because we have sinned against Yahweh. 15We looked for peace, but no good came;and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay! 16The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan.The whole land trembles at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones;for they have 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 will bite you,” says Yahweh.