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Saturday, September 13th, 2025
the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
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Contemporary English Version

Jeremiah 8:11

All they ever offer to my deeply wounded people are empty hopes for peace.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Church;   Confidence;   Impenitence;   Minister, Christian;   Nation;   Patriotism;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Peace;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - False Prophet;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Wormwood;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Peace (2);  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Heal;   Hurt;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They have treated the brokennessof my dear people superficially,claiming, ‘Peace, peace,’when there is no peace.
Hebrew Names Version
They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Shalom, shalom; when there is no shalom.
King James Version
For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
English Standard Version
They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,' when there is no peace.
New American Standard Bible
"They have healed the brokenness of the daughter of My people superficially, Saying, 'Peace, peace,' But there is no peace.
New Century Version
They tried to heal my people's serious injuries as if they were small wounds. They said, "It's all right, it's all right." But really, it is not all right.
Amplified Bible
"For they have treated the brokenness of the daughter of My people superficially, 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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For they haue healed the hurt of the daughter of my people with sweete woordes, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace.
Legacy Standard Bible
They heal the brokenness of the daughter of My people superficially,Saying, ‘Peace, peace,'But there is no peace.
Berean Standard Bible
They dress the wounds of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, 'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace.
Complete Jewish Bible
they dress the wound of the daughter of my people, but only superficially, saying, "There is perfect shalom," when there is no shalom.
Darby Translation
And they have healed the breach of the daughter of my people lightly, saying, Peace, peace! when there is no peace.
Easy-to-Read Version
They should bandage the wounds my people have suffered, but they treat their wounds like small scratches. They say, "It's all right, everything is all right." But it is not all right!
George Lamsa Translation
And they try to heal the wound of the daughter of my people mockingly, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace.
Good News Translation
They act as if my people's wounds were only scratches. ‘All is well,' they say, when all is not well.
Lexham English Bible
And they have treated the wound of the daughter of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,' but there is no peace.
Literal Translation
For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of My people slightly, saying, Peace, peace! And there is no peace.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Neuertheles, they heale the hurte of my people with swete wordes, sayenge: peace, peace, where there is no peace at all.
American Standard Version
And they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Bible in Basic English
And they have made little of the wounds of the daughter of Zion, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they have healed the hurt of the daughter of My people lightly, saying: 'Peace, peace', when there is no peace.
King James Version (1611)
For they haue healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Neuerthelesse, they heale the hurt of my people very slenderly, saying, peace, peace: where there is no peace at all.
English Revised Version
And they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people lightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and thei heeliden the sorowe of the douytir of my puple to schenschipe, seiynge, Pees, pees, whanne no pees was.
Update Bible Version
And they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, 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.
New English Translation
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!
New King James Version
For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of My people slightly, Saying, "Peace, peace!' When there is no peace.
New Living Translation
They offer superficial treatments for my people's mortal wound. They give assurances of peace when there is no peace.
New Life Bible
They have healed the hurt of My people very little, saying, ‘Peace, peace,' when there is no peace.
New Revised Standard
They have treated the wound of my people carelessly, saying, "Peace, peace," when there is no peace.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And so they have healed the grievous wound of the daughter of my people, slightly, - Saying, Peace! peace! when there was 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.
Revised Standard Version
They have healed the wound of my people lightly, 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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"They heal the brokenness of the daughter of My people superficially, Saying, 'Peace, peace,' But there is no peace.

Contextual Overview

4 The Lord said: People of Jerusalem, when you stumble and fall, you get back up, and if you take a wrong road, you turn around and go back. 5 So why do you refuse to come back to me? Why do you hold so tightly to your false gods? 6 I listen carefully, but none of you admit that you've done wrong. Without a second thought, you run down the wrong road like cavalry troops charging into battle. 7 Storks, doves, swallows, and thrushes all know when it's time to fly away for the winter and when to come back. But you, my people, don't know what I demand. 8 You say, "We are wise because we have the teachings and laws of the Lord ." But I say that your teachers have turned my words into lies! 9 Your wise men have rejected what I say, and so they have no wisdom. Now they will be trapped and put to shame; they won't know what to do. 10 I'll give their wives and fields to strangers. Everyone is greedy and dishonest, whether poor or rich. Even the prophets and priests cannot be trusted. 11 All they ever offer to my deeply wounded people are empty hopes for peace. 12 They should be ashamed of their disgusting sins, but they don't even blush. And so, when I punish Judah, they will end up on the ground, dead like everyone else.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they: Jeremiah 6:14, Jeremiah 14:14, Jeremiah 14:15, Jeremiah 27:9, Jeremiah 27:10, Jeremiah 28:3-9, 1 Kings 22:6, 1 Kings 22:13, Lamentations 2:14, Ezekiel 13:10-16, Ezekiel 13:22, Micah 2:11

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 18:5 - Go up Proverbs 24:24 - that Isaiah 30:10 - speak Jeremiah 2:8 - priests Jeremiah 4:10 - Ye shall have Jeremiah 14:13 - behold Jeremiah 20:6 - thy friends Jeremiah 23:17 - Ye Jeremiah 28:9 - which Jeremiah 37:19 - your Ezekiel 13:16 - see visions Ezekiel 14:10 - the punishment Ezekiel 22:28 - prophets Ezekiel 33:8 - if thou Hosea 9:7 - the prophet Micah 2:6 - that they Zechariah 10:2 - they comfort Romans 16:18 - by

Cross-References

Genesis 8:12
He waited seven more days before sending the dove out again, and this time it did not return.
Genesis 8:14
By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was completely dry.
Nehemiah 8:15
They also learned that they were to go into the woods and gather branches of leafy trees such as olives, myrtles, and palms for making these shelters.
Romans 10:15
And how can anyone tell them without being sent by the Lord? The Scriptures say it is a beautiful sight to see even the feet of someone coming to preach the good news.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people,.... :-,

:-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These verses are almost identical with Jeremiah 6:12-15.

Jeremiah 8:10

To them that shall inherit them - Rather, “to those that shall take possession of them, i. e., “to conquerors who shall take them by force.


 
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