New Revised Standard Version
We look for peace, but find no good, for a time of healing, but there is terror instead.

Contemporary English Version
We had hoped for peace and a time of healing, but all we got was terror.

New American Bible
We wait for peace to no avail; for a time of healing, but terror comes instead.

Douay-Rheims Bible
We looked for peace and no good came: for a time of healing, and behold fear.

We looked for peace and no good came: for a time of healing, and behold fear.

Jeremiah 4:10 And I said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, hast thou then deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying: You shall have peace: and behold the sword reacheth even to the soul?

Jeremiah 14:19 Hast thou utterly cast away Juda, or hath thy soul abhorred Sion? why then hast thou struck us, so that there is no healing for us? we have looked for peace, and there is no good: and for the time of healing, and behold trouble.

Micah 1:12 And pass away, O thou that dwellest in the beautiful place, covered with thy shame: she went not forth that dwelleth in the confines: the house adjoining shall receive mourning from you, which stood by herself.

1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say: Peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.