14 They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. 'Peace, peace,' they say, when there is no peace.
14 They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, 'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace.
14 My people are broken - shattered! - and they put on band-aids, Saying, 'It's not so bad. You'll be just fine.' But things are not 'just fine'!
14 They have also healed the hurt of My people slightly, Saying, 'Peace, peace!' When there is no peace.
14 They offer superficial treatments for my people's mortal wound. They give assurances of peace when there is no peace.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Jeremiah 6:14
Commentary on Jeremiah 6:9-17
(Read Jeremiah 6:9-17)
When the Lord arises to take vengeance, no sinners of any age or rank, or of either sex escape. They were set upon the world, and wholly carried away by the love of it. If we judge of this sin by God's word, we find multitudes in every station and rank given up to it. Those are to be reckoned our worst and most dangerous enemies, who flatter us in a sinful way. Oh that men would be wise for their souls! Ask for the old paths; the way of godliness and righteousness has always been the way God has owned and blessed. Ask for the old paths set forth by the written word of God. When you have found the good way, go on in it, you will find abundant recompence at your journey's end. But if men will not obey the voice of God and flee to his appointed Refuge, it will plainly appear at the day of judgment, that they are ruined because they reject God's word.