Jeremiah 8:11

In 10 translations

BSB

They dress the wound of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.

KJV

For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

WEB

They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, “Peace, peace,” when there is no peace.

ASV

And they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

LSV

And they heal the breach of the daughter of My people slightly, || Saying, Peace, peace! And there is no peace.

YLT

And they heal the breach of the daughter of my people slightly, Saying, Peace, peace! and there is no peace.

DBY

And they have healed the breach of the daughter of my people lightly, saying, Peace, peace! when there is no peace.

DRC

And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people disgracefully, saying Peace, peace: when there was no peace.

GNV

For they haue healed the hurt of the daughter of my people with sweete woordes, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace.

JPS

And they have healed the hurt of the daughter of My people lightly, saying: 'Peace, peace', when there is no peace.

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WLC

וַיְרַפּ֞וּ אֶת־שֶׁ֤בֶר בַּת־עַמִּי֙ עַל־נְקַלָּ֔ה לֵאמֹ֖ר שָׁל֣וֹם ׀ שָׁל֑וֹם וְאֵ֖ין שָׁלֽוֹם׃

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• Jeremiah 6:14They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.
• Ezekiel 13:10–16Because they have led My people astray, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and whitewashing any flimsy wall that is built, tell those whitewashing the wall that it will fall. Rain will come in torrents, I will…
• Lamentations 2:14The visions of your prophets were empty and deceptive; they did not expose your guilt to ward off your captivity. The burdens they envisioned for you were empty and misleading.
• Jeremiah 28:3–9Within two years I will restore to this place all the articles of the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon removed from here and carried to Babylon. And I will restore to this place Jeconiah son of…
• 1 Kings 22:6So the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and asked them, “Should I go to war against Ramoth-gilead, or should I refrain?” “Go up,” they replied, “and the Lord will deliver it into the hand…
• Jeremiah 27:9–10But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums, or your sorcerers who declare, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’ For they prophesy to you a lie that…
• 1 Kings 22:13Then the messenger who had gone to call Micaiah instructed him, “Behold now, with one accord the words of the prophets are favorable to the king. So please let your words be like theirs, and speak favorably.”
• Jeremiah 14:14–15“The prophets are prophesying lies in My name,” replied the LORD. “I did not send them or appoint them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, a worthless divination, the futility and delusion of…
• Micah 2:11If a man of wind were to come and say falsely, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be just the preacher for this people!
• Ezekiel 13:22Because you have disheartened the righteous with your lies, even though I have caused them no grief, and because you have encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways to save their lives,

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