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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 8:15 - Strong Concordance

Verse         Translation Text
Jer 8:15 Strong Concordance We looked [06960] for peace [07965], but no good [02896] came; and for a time [06256] of health [04832], and behold trouble [01205]!
  King James We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Repeated (Jer 14:19).

We looked for--owing to the expectations held out by the false prophets.

health--healing; that is, restoration from adversity.
 
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19 Hast thou utterly [03988] rejected [03988] Judah [03063]? hath thy soul [05315] lothed [01602] Zion [06726]? why hast thou smitten [05221] us, and there is no healing [04832] for us? we looked [06960] for peace [07965], and there is no good [02896]; and for the time [06256] of healing [04832], and behold trouble [01205]!