And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilad with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
And their father Yisrael said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:
Hast thou utterly rejected Yhudah? hath thy soul lothed TZiyon? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Yerushalayim? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of TZiyon? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
Now the children of Reuven and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilad, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;
As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.
For thus saith YY unto the king's house of Yhudah; Thou art Gilad unto me, and the head of Lvanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.