Peace! Peace?

[Jer. 4:10 ….. Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.]
"And I said, Receive my supplication, O L-rd G-d; for, behold, the false prophets deceive this people and the inhabitants, saying, you shall have peace." The prophet could not reconcile this devastation of the country with the promises already made; and he appears to ask the question, Have you not then deceived this people in saying there shall be peace and prosperity?
The false prophets foretold "peace," and the people believed them; G-d overruled this to His purposes. When the sword is at the door, not only ready to take away the comforts of life, but even life itself, “the people being generally destroyed speaking in martial language, warning them of the nature of their approaching judgment.
There shall be tidings brought both to the country and city. A drying blasting wind, a parching scorching wind, which spoils the fruits of the earth and withers them, not a wind which brings rain, but such as comes out of the north, which drives away rain (Proverbs 25:23), but brings something worse instead of it; such shall this evil out of the north be to people, a black freezing wind, which they can neither fence against nor flee from, but, wherever they go, it shall surround and pursue them; and they cannot see it before it comes, but, when it comes, they shall feel it. It is a wind of the high places in the wilderness, or plain, that beats upon the tops of the hills or that carries all before it in the plain, where there is no shelter, but the ground is all champaign. It shall come in its full force towards the daughters of My people, that have been brought up so tenderly and delicately that they could not endure to have the wind blow upon them. Now this fierce wind shall come against them, not to fan, nor cleanse them, not such a gentle wind as is used in winnowing corn, but a full wind, a strong and violent wind, blowing full upon them. It is in vain to think either of opposing them or of outrunning them. This shall come to Me, or rather for Me; it shall come with commission from G-d and shall accomplish that for which He sends it; for this, as other stormy winds, fulfills His word.
Ill news flies apace; and an impenitent people, that hates to be reformed, can expect no other that ill news.
The lamentable cause of this judgment.
They sinned against G-d; it was all owing to themselves: She has been rebellious against Me, said the L-rd, your way and your doings have procured these things unto you, your evil way and your doings that have not been good. Those that go on in sin while they are endeavoring to ward off mischief with one hand are at the same time pulling them upon their own heads with the other.
In men's anger against us, and the violence of that, we must see and own G-d's anger and the power of that. If that were turned back from us, our enemies could not come forward against us.
In His just and holy anger He condemned them to this dreadful punishment: and we are sure that the judgment of G-d is according to the truth, and the execution of that judgment.
The false prophets, who had cried peace to them, shall be put into the greatest amazement imaginable, seeing their own guilty blood ready to be shed by that sword which they had often told the people there was no danger of. G-d's judgments come with the greatest terror upon those that have been most secure. Our Savior foretells that at the last destruction men's hearts should fail them for fear, Luke 21:26. And it is common for those who have cheated and flattered people into a carnal security not only to fail them, but to discourage them, when the trouble comes.