King James Version
Jeremiah 8:11 in the King James Version says “For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 8 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.”
Jeremiah 8:11 · KJV
The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them? The wise: or, Have they been ashamed, etc what: Heb. the wisdom of what thing
Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD. I will: or, In gathering I will consume
I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“For they have healed”
H7495properly, to mend (by stitching), i.e., (figuratively) to cure
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“of the daughter”
H1323a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
“of my people”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“slightly”
H7043to be (causatively, make) light, literally (swift, small, sharp, etc.) or figuratively (easy, trifling, vile, etc.)
“Peace”
H7965safe, i.e., (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e., health, prosperity, peace
“Peace”
H7965safe, i.e., (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e., health, prosperity, peace
“Peace”
H7965safe, i.e., (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e., health, prosperity, peace
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