THEOSISJeremiah 8:11Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people disgracefully, saying: Peace, peace: when there was no peace.
וַיְרַפּ֞וּ אֶת־שֶׁ֤בֶר בַּת־עַמִּי֙ עַל־נְקַלָּ֔ה לֵאמֹ֖ר שָׁל֣וֹם ׀ שָׁל֑וֹם וְאֵ֖ין שָׁלֽוֹם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Jer 6:14And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people disgracefully, saying: Peace, peace: and there was no peace.
- Ezek 13:10Because they have deceived my people, saying: Peace, and there is no peace: and the people built up a wall, and they daubed it with dirt without straw.
- Ezek 13:16Even the prophets of Israel that prophesy to Jerusalem, and that see visions of peace for her: and there is no peace, saith the Lord God.
- Lam 2:14Nun. Thy prophets have seen false and foolish things for thee: and they have not laid open thy iniquity, to excite thee to penance: but they have seen for thee false revelations and banishments.
- Ezek 13:22Because with lies you have made the heart of the just to mourn, whom I have not made sorrowful: and have strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his evil way, and live.
- Jer 28:3As yet two years of days, and I will cause all the vessels of the house of the Lord to be brought back into this place, which Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon.
- Jer 28:9The prophet that prophesied peace: when his word shall come to pass, the prophet shall be known, whom the hath sent in truth.
- Mic 2:11Would God I were not a man that hath the spirit, and that I rather spoke a lie: I will let drop to thee of wine, and of drunkenness: and it shall be this people upon whom it shall drop.