 | Hugh Gaston - 1843 - 348 pages
...divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart. (Ch. xxvii. 9, 10, &c.) Ch. vi. 14. They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people...slightly, saying, Peace, peace ; when there is no peace. Ch. v iii. 11. Ezek. xiii. 10. 18. Mic. iii. 6. xii. 10. Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard. Ver.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 528 pages
...cessation of war has brought neither concord nor tranquillity, we may safely cry aloud with the Prophet : They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people...slightly, saying, Peace, Peace, when there is no peace : and proceed to answer the three questions in the answers to which the Prophet instructs us to seek... | |
 | Elizabeth Clare Prophet - 2004 - 428 pages
...were given to covetousness. From the prophet even unto the priest every one was dealing falsely. For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.10 And they were not ashamed when they committed the abomination of the misuse of the sacred... | |
 | Leigh Richmond - 2001 - 116 pages
...1741, 1 heard Mr. Whitefield preach on a Sabbath morning, in Glasgow, from the text, 'They have also healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace' (Jer. 6: 14). After describing what it is to have a false peace, he said, If you have no other peace... | |
 | James D. Faubion - 2001 - 264 pages
...greatest is given unto 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 was no peace. 'Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? Nay, they were not at all ashamed,... | |
 | Douglas Wilson - 2001 - 290 pages
...affection for smooth words, words which go down easily. Jeremiah talked about this. "They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace" (Jer. 6:14). We like to believe that this love of soft words, words which will trouble neither the... | |
 | Walter Brueggemann - 2001 - 180 pages
...for the peace as much as they do. He too wants business as usual, but death has now changed all that: "We looked for peace, but no good came, for a time of healing, but behold, terror" (8:15). This most eloquent of all prophets cannot find words to bring... | |
 | Paul Weimer - 2002 - 130 pages
...opportunity of escape. Jeremiah, the prophet, condemned the apostates of his day as those who "heal the hurt of my people slightly saying, 'Peace, Peace,' when there is no peace." It is bad enough for you to deceive yourself; it is twice as bad to deceive another. The popular philosophy... | |
 | Peter J. Gomes - 2009 - 386 pages
...prophecy of Jeremiah the cry of an easy peace without justice is condemned: "They have healed the hurt ... of my people slightly, saying, 'Peace, peace'; when there is no peace" (Jeremiah 6:14, KJV). The desire for peace is understandable, but the prophet insists that there can... | |
 | Kirk Cameron, Ray Comfort - 2004 - 248 pages
...leaving a sinner with false peace. In Jeremiah 8:I I. God says of the prophets and priests of Israel: "They have healed the hurt of the daughter of My people...slightly. saying. 'Peace. peace!' when there is no peace." This is how to give false peace to a sinner. Simply ask. "Do you have assurance that you will go to... | |
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For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, "Peace, peace! 
