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Jeremiah 8:22

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? So why has the healing of my dear people not come about?

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Go up to Gilead and get balm, Virgin Daughter Egypt! You have multiplied remedies in vain; there is no healing for you.


They sat down to eat a meal,  and when they looked up, there was a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead.  Their camels were carrying aromatic gum, balsam, and resin, going down to Egypt.


Suddenly Babylon fell and was shattered. Wail for her; get balm  for her wound – perhaps she can be healed.


A woman suffering from bleeding  for twelve years,  who had spent all she had on doctors  and yet could not be healed by any,


Then their father Israel said to them, ‘If it must be so, then do this: put some of the best products of the land in your packs and take them down to the man as a gift #– #a little balsam and a little honey, aromatic gum and resin, pistachios and almonds.


If my head were a flowing spring, my eyes a fountain of tears, I would weep day and night over the slain of my dear   people.


Have you completely rejected Judah? Do you detest   Zion? Why do you strike us with no hope of healing for us? We hoped for peace, but there was nothing good; for a time of healing, but there was only terror.


What can I say on your behalf? What can I compare you to, Daughter Jerusalem? What can I liken you to, so that I may console you, Virgin Daughter Zion? For your ruin is as vast as the sea. Who can heal you?


The Reubenites and Gadites had a very large number of livestock. When they surveyed the lands of Jazer  and Gilead, they saw that the region was a good one for livestock.


As a well gushes out its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction  resound in her. Sickness and wounds keep coming to my attention.


I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a jackals’ den. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, an uninhabited place.


For this is what the Lord says concerning the house of the king of Judah: ‘You are like Gilead  to me, or the summit of Lebanon, but I will certainly turn you into a wilderness, uninhabited cities.


Judah and the land of Israel were your merchants. They exchanged wheat from Minnith,  meal,  honey, oil, and balm for your goods.





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