Jeremiah 8:22
Good News Translation
Is there no medicine in Gilead? Are there no doctors there? Why, then, have my people not been healed?

New Revised Standard Version
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of my poor people not been restored?

Contemporary English Version
If medicine and doctors may be found in Gilead, why aren't my people healed?

New American Bible
Is there no balm in Gilead, no healer there? Why does new flesh not grow over the wound of the daughter of my people?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Is there no balm in Galaad? or is there no physician there? Why then is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Is there no balm in Galaad? or is there no physician there? Why then is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed?

no balm.

Jeremiah 46:11 Go up into Galaad, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain dost thou multiply medicines, there shall be no cure for thee.

Jeremiah 51:8 Babylon is suddenly fallen, and destroyed: howl for her, take balm for her pain, if so she may be healed.

Genesis 37:25 And sitting down to eat bread, they saw some Ismaelites on their way coming from Galaad, with their camels, carrying spices, and balm, and myrrh to Egypt.

Genesis 43:11 Then Israel said to them: If it must needs be so, do what you will: take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down presents to the man, a little balm, and honey, and storax, myrrh, turpentine, and almonds.

no physician.

Matthew 9:11,12 And the Pharisees seeing it, said to his disciples: Why doth your master eat with publicans and sinners? . . .

Luke 5:31,32 And Jesus answering, said to them: They that are whole need not the physician: but they that are sick. . . .

Luke 8:43 And there was a certain woman having an issue of blood twelve years, who had bestowed all her substance on physicians and could not be healed by any.

why.

Jeremiah 30:12-17 For thus saith the Lord: Thy bruise is incurable, thy wound is very grievous. . . .

recovered.

Isaiah 1:5,6 For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad. . . .

Context
Jeremiah Weeps for His People
21For the affliction of the daughter of my people I am afflicted, and made sorrowful, astonishment hath taken hold on me. 22Is there no balm in Galaad? or is there no physician there? Why then is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed?
Cross References
Matthew 9:12
But Jesus hearing it, said: They that are in health need not a physician, but they that are ill.

Genesis 37:25
And sitting down to eat bread, they saw some Ismaelites on their way coming from Galaad, with their camels, carrying spices, and balm, and myrrh to Egypt.

Genesis 43:11
Then Israel said to them: If it must needs be so, do what you will: take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down presents to the man, a little balm, and honey, and storax, myrrh, turpentine, and almonds.

Isaiah 1:6
From the sole of the foot unto the top of the head, there is no soundness therein: wounds and bruises and swelling sores: they are not bound up, nor dressed, nor fomented with oil.

Jeremiah 9:1
Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? and I will weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 14:19
Hast thou utterly cast away Juda, or hath thy soul abhorred Sion? why then hast thou struck us, so that there is no healing for us? we have looked for peace, and there is no good: and for the time of healing, and behold trouble.

Jeremiah 30:13
There is none to judge thy judgment to bind it up: thou hast no healing medicines.

Jeremiah 30:17
For I will close up thy scar, and will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord. Because they have called thee, O Sion, an outcast: This is she that hath none to seek after her.

Jeremiah 46:11
Go up into Galaad, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain dost thou multiply medicines, there shall be no cure for thee.

Lamentations 2:13
Mem. To what shall I compare thee? or to what shall I liken thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? to what shall I equal thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Sion? for great as the sea is thy destruction: who shall heal thee?

Jeremiah 8:21
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