Jeremiah 8:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble! ”

Jeremiah 8:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Health ... trouble - Or, “rest ... terror.”
Jeremiah 8:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Judah's Unnatural Conduct and its Punishment. There is something unnatural in the persistency of the people's misconduct; they show no inclination to return to Yahweh, but pursue a headstrong cours...
Jeremiah 8:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

trouble . terror.
Jeremiah 8:15 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

He explains his meaning more clearly in this verse, — that the Jews in vain flattered themselves, while they entertained vain hopes. He then says that there was no reason for them to deceive th...
Jeremiah 8:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
Jeremiah 8:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble! Repeated, Jeremiah 14:19 . We looked for peace - owing to the expectations held out by the false proph...
Jeremiah 8:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-3. The dead shall share in the universal punishment.
Jeremiah 8:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

A time of health... — Better, healing, or, following another etymology, a time of quietness, and behold alarm. “Peace,” in the first clause, is used in its wider sense as including all forms of...
Jeremiah 8:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 8:1-22 ; Jeremiah 9:1-26 ; Jeremiah 10:1-25 ; Jeremiah 26:1-24 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a finished whole. The only possible exception...
Jeremiah 8:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

False Promises of Peace Jeremiah 8:4-22 This chapter is filled with denunciation of the unreasonable and infatuated obstinacy of Israel. As the horse rushes madly to the fight, so were the peop...
Jeremiah 8:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Utter desolation would overtake them so that death would be chosen rather than life. This sin of idolatry had been aggravated by the people's terrible persistence therein. If men fall it is naturally...
Jeremiah 8:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I bring the whole of this beautiful Chapter, from this verse to the end into one view, for the sake of shortness, and from necessity; but otherwise nothing could be more desirable than to dwell upon...
Jeremiah 8:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

We looked for peace ,.... Outward prosperity, affluence of temporal blessings, peace with enemies, and safety from them, which the false prophets had given them reason to expect; or which last they...
Jeremiah 8:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

We looked for peace, but no good [came; and] for a time of health, and behold trouble! Ver. 15. We looked for peace, but no good came. ] Our false prophets have merely deluded us. So poor souls, w...
Jeremiah 8:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Let us enter into the defenced cities In these verses the prophet seems to turn to and address his countrymen by way of apostrophe; and, as one of the people that dwelt in the open towns, advises t...
Jeremiah 8:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Destruction Threatened for Sin; Despair of Sinners in Trouble; The Prophet's Lamentation. B. C. 606....
Jeremiah 8:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Viz. Upon the persuasion of our prophets, we expected that these troubles would never come, but all would be well; but we find ourselves merely deluded by them; we looked so long, till even our eyes...
Jeremiah 8:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah Calls On The People To Enter Their Fortified Cities Because The Invaders Are Coming And There Will Be No Peace Terms Accepted Or Healing Of Their Rebellion, For YHWH Is Sending Among Them S...
Jeremiah 8:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Chronology and History, as in chap. 7. Observe, however, that a new section in this extended prophetic address commenced with Jeremiah 8:4 , which continues to chap....
Jeremiah 8:15 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 8:1-2 . At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and t...
Jeremiah 8:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 8:1 . At that time they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah of the princes of the priests, and the bones (as in the Chaldaic) of the false prophets. They shall spread them...
Jeremiah 8:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Jeremiah 8:1-24 Punishment will even overtake the sinners who have long since been deceased. Jeremiah 8:1 They shall bring out the bones . Not only shall many of the dead...
Jeremiah 8:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Further Description of the Impending Punishment
Jeremiah 8:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 5:3 ; Jeremiah 14:19 ; Jeremiah 4:10 ; Micah 1:12

Jeremiah 8:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 8:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 8:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Jeremiah 8:15 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 8:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 8:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 8:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 8:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 8:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 8:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Jeremiah 8:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 8:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 8:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 8:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 8:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 8:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 8:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 8:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 8:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 8:15 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 8:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 8:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 8:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 8:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge