Jeremiah 8:11
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New International Version (©2011)
They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. "Peace, peace," they say, when there is no peace.

New Living Translation (©2007)
They offer superficial treatments for my people's mortal wound. They give assurances of peace when there is no peace.

English Standard Version (©2001)
They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"They heal the brokenness of the daughter of My people superficially, Saying, 'Peace, peace,' But there is no peace.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
They have treated superficially the brokenness of My dear people, claiming, 'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace.

International Standard Version (©2012)
They have treated my people's wound superficially, telling them, 'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace.

NET Bible (©2006)
They offer only superficial help for the hurt my dear people have suffered. They say, "Everything will be all right!" But everything is not all right!

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They treat my dear people's wounds as though they were not serious, saying, "Everything is alright! Everything is alright!" But it's not alright.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people lightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

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

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

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

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

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

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

World English Bible
They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

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

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

8:4-13 What brought this ruin? 1. The people would not attend to reason; they would not act in the affairs of their souls with common prudence. Sin is backsliding; it is going back from the way that leads to life, to that which leads to destruction. 2. They would not attend to the warning of conscience. They did not take the first step towards repentance: true repentance begins in serious inquiry as to what we have done, from conviction that we have done amiss. 3. They would not attend to the ways of providence, nor understand the voice of God in them, ver. 7. They know not how to improve the seasons of grace, which God affords. Many boast of their religious knowledge, yet, unless taught by the Spirit of God, the instinct of brutes is a more sure guide than their supposed wisdom. 4. They would not attend to the written word. Many enjoy abundance of the means of grace, have Bibles and ministers, but they have them in vain. They will soon be ashamed of their devices. The pretenders to wisdom were the priests and the false prophets. They flattered people in sin, and so flattered them into destruction, silencing their fears and complaints with, All is well. Selfish teachers may promise peace when there is no peace; and thus men encourage each other in committing evil; but in the day of visitation they will have no refuge to flee unto.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people,.... See Gill on Jeremiah 6:14, Jeremiah 6:15.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

11. (Eze 13:10).

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Judah's Sin and Punishment
…10Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely. 11For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. 12Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? no, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, said the LORD. …

1 Thessalonians 5:3 While people are saying, "Peace and safety," destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
Jeremiah 6:14 They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. 'Peace, peace,' they say, when there is no peace.
Jeremiah 8:15 We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing but there is only terror.
Jeremiah 14:13 But I said, "Alas, Sovereign LORD! The prophets keep telling them, 'You will not see the sword or suffer famine. Indeed, I will give you lasting peace in this place.'"
Jeremiah 14:14 Then the LORD said to me, "The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries and the delusions of their own minds.
Jeremiah 23:17 They keep saying to those who despise me, 'The LORD says: You will have peace.' And to all who follow the stubbornness of their hearts they say, 'No harm will come to you.'
Lamentations 2:14 The visions of your prophets were false and worthless; they did not expose your sin to ward off your captivity. The prophecies they gave you were false and misleading.
Ezekiel 13:10 "'Because they lead my people astray, saying, "Peace," when there is no peace, and because, when a flimsy wall is built, they cover it with whitewash,
Ezekiel 13:16 those prophets of Israel who prophesied to Jerusalem and saw visions of peace for her when there was no peace, declares the Sovereign LORD."'