Jeremiah 6:14 as well as Jeremiah 8:11. It is also found in Ezekiel 13:10 and 16. In all four places, it has the same meaning in the same historical context.
*Jeremiah was like a doctor delivering bad news to his patient. His
diagnosis was that, unless drastic measures were taken, the patient
would die.
*However, the false prophets gave a “second opinion.”
Instead
of radical surgery and a drastic change of lifestyle, the priests and
false prophets said a light bandage was all that was needed. The
following passage is found in Jeremiah 6:13–14 and repeated exactly in Jeremiah 8:10b–11:
“From the least to the greatest,
all are greedy for gain;
prophets and priests alike,
all practice deceit.
They dress the wound of my people
as though it were not serious.
‘Peace, peace,’ they say,
when there is no peace.”
When the priests and false prophets said, “Peace, peace,” they were
denying that judgment was on the way. They were giving the people false
assurances. The explicit assumption is that Jerusalem and Judah had not
committed grievous sins and that God was not displeased with them. In
fact, according to the false prophets, God was quite happy with His
people and wanted to bless them.
God bore witness against the people to whom Isaiah was sent to minister,
calling them “rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling
to listen to the Lord’s instruction” (Isaiah 30:9).
Such people have closed their ears to the Word of the Lord, and desire
to hear only “peace” even when there is no peace. They say to God’s
prophets, “Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant
things, prophesy illusions. . . . !” (verses 10–11)."
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