We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hope
For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.
While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant
Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, how completely You have deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying, ‘You will have peace,’
They dress the wound of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace