Jeremiah 8:15

We looked for peace,.... Outward prosperity, affluence of temporal blessings, peace with enemies, and safety from them, which the false prophets had given them reason to expect; or which last they concluded and hoped for, from their being in the defenced cities:

but no good came; they were disappointed in their expectation; the good that was promised them, and they looked for, never came, but all the reverse:

and for a time of health; or, of healing l; the political wounds of the commonwealth of Israel:

and behold trouble! or "terror" m; at the approach of the enemy, described in the following verses. The Targum is,

"a time of pardon of offences, and, lo, a punishment of sins.''

Healing, in Scripture, signifies pardon of sin; see Psalms 41:4.

l מרפה "medelae, [vel] sanationis", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Schmidt. m בעתה "terror", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius Tremellius, Schmdit.