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Jeremiah 8:11

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8:11They offer only superficial help

for the hurt my dear people27 have suffered.28

They say, “Everything will be all right!”

But everything is not all right!29

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Footnotes

  1. 27 Heb “daughter of my people.” For the translation given here see 4:11 and the note on the phrase “dear people” there.
  2. 28 Heb “They heal the wound of my people lightly.”
  3. 29 Heb “They say, ‘Peace! Peace!’ and there is no peace!”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

They have healed the wound of my people lightly,

saying, ‘Peace, peace,’

when there is no peace.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

They dress the wound of my people

as though it were not serious.

“Peace, peace,” they say,

when there is no peace.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

They have treated the brokenness

of my dear people superficially,

claiming, ‘Peace, peace,’

when there is no peace.

NLTNew Living Translation

They offer superficial treatments

for my people’s mortal wound.

They give assurances of peace

when there is no peace.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And they have treated the wound of the daughter of my people lightly,

saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ but there is no peace.

KJV 1900King James Version

For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.