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.
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? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people restored? [Because Zion no longer enjoyed the presence of the Great Physician!] [Exod. 15:26.] American Standard Version (1901) Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? Common English Bible Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then have my people not been restored to health? Catholic Public Domain Version Is there no balm in Gilead? Or is there no physician there? Then why has the wound of the daughter of my people not been closed?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Is there no balm in Galaad? Or is no physician there? Why then is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed? |
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.
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.
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.
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.
Go up to Gilead and get balm, Virgin Daughter Egypt! You have multiplied remedies in vain; there is no healing for you.
Suddenly Babylon fell and was shattered. Wail for her; get balm for her wound – perhaps she can be healed.
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.
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.
I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a jackals’ den. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, an uninhabited place.
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?
Judah and the land of Israel were your merchants. They exchanged wheat from Minnith, meal, honey, oil, and balm for your goods.
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.
A woman suffering from bleeding for twelve years, who had spent all she had on doctors and yet could not be healed by any,