11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people with sweet words, saying, [a]Peace, peace, when there is no peace.

12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not ashamed, neither could they have any shame: therefore shall they fall among the slain: when I shall visit them, they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.

13 I will surely consume them, saith the Lord: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade, and the things that I have given them shall depart from them.

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  1. Jeremiah 8:11 Read Jer. 6:14.

11 They dress the wound of my people
    as though it were not serious.
“Peace, peace,” they say,
    when there is no peace.(A)
12 Are they ashamed of their detestable conduct?
    No, they have no shame(B) at all;
    they do not even know how to blush.
So they will fall among the fallen;
    they will be brought down when they are punished,(C)
says the Lord.(D)

13 “‘I will take away their harvest,
declares the Lord.
    There will be no grapes on the vine.(E)
There will be no figs(F) on the tree,
    and their leaves will wither.(G)
What I have given them
    will be taken(H) from them.[a]’”

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  1. Jeremiah 8:13 The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.