John Gill, on Jer 8:14

“Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fenced city, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and hath given us water of gall to drink: for we have sinned against the Lord.”

“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 Psa 41:4. (l) "medelae, vel sanationis", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Schmidt. (m) "terror", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Schmdit.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.