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

Is there no balm {H6875} in Gilead {H1568}; is there no physician {H7495} there? why then {H3588} is not the health {H724} of the daughter {H1323} of my people {H5971} recovered {H5927}?

Has Gil'ad exhausted its healing resin? Is no physician there? If there is, then why is the daughter of my people so slow to recover her health?

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?

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

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Cross-References

  • Genesis 37:25 (14 votes)

    And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry [it] down to Egypt.

  • Jeremiah 46:11 (14 votes)

    Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; [for] thou shalt not be cured.

  • Jeremiah 51:8 (11 votes)

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

  • Jeremiah 30:12 (9 votes)

    For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise [is] incurable, [and] thy wound [is] grievous.

  • Jeremiah 30:17 (9 votes)

    For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, [saying], This [is] Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

  • Luke 8:43 (7 votes)

    And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,

  • Luke 5:31 (6 votes)

    And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.