What Does Jeremiah 8:15 Mean in the King James?
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The verse places two expectations of restoration, wholeness and healing, beside their brutal answer: terror.
THE MEANING
The reader knows the ache of reaching for wholeness and healing and finding no good there. Trouble arrives at the very moment expected to bring repair, and the verse lets that collision remain real. It gives the gap between hoped-for restoration and what is present a voice.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that hoped-for healing must already be arriving, or that terror proves the hope was foolish.
THE ROOT
שָׁלוֹם
shalom
GROWS FROM
שלם
To be whole, complete, or sound.
שָׁלוֹם (shalom, wholeness) gathers well-being and completeness into the peace the reader expects. Its word-family also includes being whole and making repayment, placing restoration beside the hoped-for wholeness.
ALSO GROWS
shalem: Whole, complete, or sound.
שָׁלֵם
It shows that the peace sought here carries the sense of life made whole.
shillem: To repay or make good what is owed.
שִׁלֵּם
This sibling word links wholeness with making good what is missing or owed.
מַרְפֵּא
marpe
GROWS FROM
רפא
To heal or restore to health.
מַרְפֵּא (marpe, healing or remedy) points toward healing itself, not only a settled state of health. The expected time of repair arrives instead as alarm, sharpening the verse’s reversal.
ALSO GROWS
refuah: Healing or recovery.
רְפוּאָה
It carries the same root into the condition the reader longs to experience.
rophe: One who heals.
רֹפֵא
It shows the root extending from healing to the one who brings it.
THE PATTERN
Scripture lets the distance between expected restoration and actual distress be spoken without disguising either side.
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.THE THREAD
Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!Jeremiah 14:19 repeats שָׁלוֹם (shalom, wholeness) and מַרְפֵּא (marpe, healing), setting hoped-for restoration beside trouble again. The shared roots reveal this as a recurring cry in which expectation and lived distress occupy the same sentence.
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