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Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no medicine in Gilead? Is there no healer there? 1 Why will the healing of the daughter of my people not happen?

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In The King James Version

Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

In Context

21I am hurt because of the hurt of the daughter of my people. I mourn at the horrible things that have happened to her; I am dismayed. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 37:25They sat down to eat bread. They lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh. They were traveling to carry them down to Egypt.

Numbers 32:1Now the descendants of Reuben and of Gad had large numbers of livestock. When they saw the land of Jazer and Gilead, the land was a wonderful place for livestock.

Isaiah 1:6From the sole of the foot to the head there is no part unharmed; 1 only wounds, and bruises, and fresh open wounds; 1 they have not been closed, cleansed, bandaged, nor treated with oil. 1

Jeremiah 9:11So I will turn Jerusalem into piles of ruins, a hideout for jackals. 1 I will make Judah's cities ruined places without inhabitants.” 1

Jeremiah 30:12For Yahweh says this, 'Your injury is incurable; your wound is infected. 1

Jeremiah 46:11Go up to Gilead and obtain medicine, virgin daughter of Egypt. 1 It is useless that you put much medicine on yourself. There is no cure for you. 1

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 8:14-22

Destruction Threatened for Sin; Despair of Sinners in Trouble; The Prophet's Lamentation. ( b. c. 606.) 13 I will surely consume them, saith the Lord : there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them. 14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have… Read the whole commentary →

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