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Good News Translation

Jeremiah 8:11

They act as if my people's wounds were only scratches. ‘All is well,' they say, when all is not well.

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.
Contemporary English Version
All they ever offer to my deeply wounded people are empty hopes for 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.
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 told me to say to his people, "When someone falls down, doesn't he get back up? If someone misses the road, doesn't he turn back? 5 Why then, my people, do you turn away from me without ever turning back? You cling to your idols and refuse to return to me. 6 I listened carefully, but you did not speak the truth. Not one of you has been sorry for your wickedness; not one of you has asked, ‘What have I done wrong?' Each of you keep on going your own way, like a horse rushing into battle. 7 Even storks know when it is time to return; doves, swallows, and thrushes know when it is time to migrate. But, my people, you do not know the laws by which I rule you. 8 How can you say that you are wise and that you know my laws? Look, the laws have been changed by dishonest scribes. 9 Your wise men are put to shame; they are confused and trapped. They have rejected my words; what wisdom do they have now? 10 So I will give their fields to new owners and their wives to other men. Everyone, great and small, tries to make money dishonestly. Even prophets and priests cheat the people. 11 They act as if my people's wounds were only scratches. ‘All is well,' they say, when all is not well. 12 My people, were you ashamed because you did these disgusting things? No, you were not ashamed at all; you don't even know how to blush! And so you will fall as others have fallen; when I punish you, that will be the end of you. I, the Lord , have spoken.

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
Then he waited another seven days and sent out the dove once more; this time it did not come back.
Genesis 8:14
By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
Nehemiah 8:15
So they gave the following instructions and sent them all through Jerusalem and the other cities and towns: "Go out to the hills and get branches from pines, olives, myrtles, palms, and other trees to make shelters according to the instructions written in the Law."
Romans 10:15
And how can the message be proclaimed if the messengers are not sent out? As the scripture says, "How wonderful is the coming of messengers who bring 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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