The Old Testament
| Book | Chapter | Verse | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeremiah | 8 | (11) For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. | |
| Jeremiah | 8 | (12) Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, 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, saith the LORD. | |
| Jeremiah | 8 | (13) I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them. | |
| Jeremiah | 8 | (14) Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD. | |
| Jeremiah | 8 | (15) We looked for peace, but no good came, and for a time of health, and behold trouble! | |
| Jeremiah | 8 | (16) The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein. | |
| Jeremiah | 8 | (17) For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD. | |
| Jeremiah | 8 | (18) When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me. | |
| Jeremiah | 8 | (19) Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities? | |
| Jeremiah | 8 | (20) The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. | |
| Jeremiah | 8 | (21) For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. | |
| Jeremiah | 8 | (22) Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? | |
| Jeremiah | 9 | (1) OH THAT my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! | |
| Jeremiah | 9 | (2) Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. | |
| Jeremiah | 9 | (3) And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD. | |
| Jeremiah | 9 | (4) Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders. | |
| Jeremiah | 9 | (5) And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity. | |
| Jeremiah | 9 | (6) Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD. | |
| Jeremiah | 9 | (7) Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people? | |
| Jeremiah | 9 | (8) Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait. | |