15 We hoped for peace(A)
    but no good has come,
for a time of healing
    but there is only terror.(B)

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15 We (A)looked for peace, but no good came;
And for a time of health, and there was trouble!

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10 Then I said, “Alas, Sovereign Lord! How completely you have deceived(A) this people and Jerusalem by saying, ‘You will have peace,’(B) when the sword is at our throats!”

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10 Then I said, “Ah, Lord God!
(A)Surely You have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem,
(B)Saying, ‘You shall have peace,’
Whereas the sword reaches to the [a]heart.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 4:10 Lit. soul

25 When terror comes,
    they will seek peace in vain.(A)

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25 [a]Destruction comes;
They will seek peace, but there shall be none.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 7:25 Lit. Shuddering