Destruction comes! They will seek peace, and there will be none.
Parallel translations
- KJV Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
- BSB Anguish is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.
- NKJV Destruction comes; They will seek peace, but there shall be none.
- NASB When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there will be none.
- NLT Terror and trembling will overcome my people. They will look for peace but not find it.
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- Lam 4:17–18Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
- Jer 8:15–16We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
- Isa 57:21“There is no peace”, says my God, “for the wicked.”
- Isa 59:8–12They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.
- Ezek 13:10“‘Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, “Peace;” and there is no peace. When one builds up a wall, behold, they plaster it with whitewash.
- Mic 1:12For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.
- Ezek 13:16to wit, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace,’” says the Lord Yahweh.’”
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