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11 They offer only superficial help
for the hurt my dear people[a] have suffered.[b]
They say, “Everything will be all right!”
But everything is not all right.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 8:11 tn Heb “daughter of my people.” For the translation given here see 4:11 and the note on the phrase “dear people” there.
  2. Jeremiah 8:11 tn Heb “They heal the wound of my people lightly.”
  3. Jeremiah 8:11 tn Heb “They say, ‘Peace! Peace!’ and there is no peace!”

11 They dress the wound of my people
    as though it were not serious.
“Peace, peace,” they say,
    when there is no peace.(A)

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