Anguish is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.
Parallel translations
- WEB Destruction comes! They will seek peace, and there will be none.
- KJV Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be 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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Quick answer
Destruction comes, and they will seek peace but find none. There is no peace for those under judgment.
Overview
The Lord declares that as ruin arrives the people will desperately seek peace, yet none will be found. The absence of peace exposes the false security idolatry had promised. Scripture is clear that there is no peace for the wicked apart from God, and true and lasting peace comes only through reconciliation with Him.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Lam 4:17–18All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.
- Jer 8:15–16We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
- Isa 57:21“There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”
- Isa 59:8–12The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.
- Ezek 13:10Because they have led My people astray, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and whitewashing any flimsy wall that is built,
- Mic 1:12For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.
- Ezek 13:16those prophets of Israel who prophesied to Jerusalem and saw a vision of peace for her when there was no peace, declares the Lord GOD.’
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