Jeremiah 8:11
King James Version
“For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when no peace.”
Context
8How do ye say, We wise, and the law of the LORD with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he the pen of the scribes in vain.
9The wise are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom in them?
10Therefore will I give their wives unto others, their fields to them that shall inherit 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.
11For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when no peace.
12Were 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.
13I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and I have given them shall pass away from them.
14Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.