Jeremiah 8:11
They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
WEB
For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
KJV
What Jeremiah 8:11 means
It describes Judah's prophets and priests offering shallow comfort, telling a badly wounded people that all is well when disaster was actually on the way.
These are God's words, spoken through the prophet Jeremiah in the years before Babylon destroyed Jerusalem. The nation was in real danger, and Jeremiah kept telling them so.
The complaint here is about the prophets and priests, the people whose job was to tell the nation the truth. Instead of facing the trouble, they smoothed it over.
"The hurt of the daughter of my people" is a tender way of describing the nation. Jerusalem is pictured as a wounded daughter, someone God loves who has been badly injured.
The word behind "slightly" means they made light of the wound. They treated a deep, dangerous injury as if it were a scratch, cleaning it up on the surface without touching what was really wrong underneath.
Then came the words: "Peace, peace." The peace here is shalom, which is more than the absence of war. It means everything is whole, safe, and well. Repeating it is a way of insisting, "You're fine, you're fine." God's flat answer closes the verse: there is no peace. The comfort was false, and the danger had not gone anywhere.