We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
Those who cast aside the divine law and lean on deceptive promises of peace will meet trouble and calamity rather than the good they anticipated. The health and healing looked for will not arrive, and distress will stand in its place. Such expected peace proves hollow because the people have sinned against the Lord. Disobedience itself draws on the trouble described, so judgment follows where repentance and obedience are refused.
Those who cast aside the divine law and lean on deceptive promises of peace will meet trouble and calamity rather than the good they anticipated. The health and healing looked for will not arrive, and distress will stand in its place. Such expected peace proves hollow because the people have sinned against the Lord. Disobedience itself draws on the trouble described, so judgment follows where repentance and obedience are refused.