Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is there no healing for the wound of my people? New Living Translation Is there no medicine in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why is there no healing for the wounds of my people? English Standard Version Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored? Berean Standard Bible Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored? King James Bible Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? New King James Version Is there no balm in Gilead, Is there no physician there? Why then is there no recovery For the health of the daughter of my people? New American Standard Bible Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people been restored? NASB 1995 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people been restored? NASB 1977 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people been restored? Legacy Standard Bible Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people gone up? Amplified Bible Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has not the [spiritual] health of the daughter of my people been restored? Christian Standard Bible Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? So why has the healing of my dear people not come about? Holman Christian Standard Bible Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? So why has the healing of my dear people not come about? American Standard 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? Aramaic Bible in Plain English Is there no wax in Galad, or is there no Physician there? Why has the healing of the daughter of my people not resulted? Brenton Septuagint Translation And is there no balm in Galaad, or is there no physician there? why has not the healing of the daughter of my people taken place? Contemporary English Version If medicine and doctors may be found in Gilead, why aren't my people healed? Douay-Rheims Bible Is there no balm in Galaad? or is no physician there? Why then is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed? English Revised 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? GOD'S WORD® Translation Isn't there medicine in Gilead? Aren't there doctors there? Then why hasn't the health of my dear people been restored? Good News Translation Is there no medicine in Gilead? Are there no doctors there? Why, then, have my people not been healed? International Standard Version Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? So why is there no healing for my people? JPS Tanakh 1917 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is not the health Of the daughter of my people recovered? Literal Standard Version Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why has the health of the daughter of my people not gone up? Majority Standard Bible Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored? New American Bible Is there no balm in Gilead, no healer there? Why does new flesh not grow over the wound of the daughter of my people? NET Bible There is still medicinal ointment available in Gilead! There is still a physician there! Why then have my dear people not been restored to health? New Revised Standard Version Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of my poor people not been restored? New Heart English Bible Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered? Webster's Bible Translation Is there no balm in Gilead: is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered. World English Bible Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered? Young's Literal Translation Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? For wherefore hath not the health of the daughter of my people gone up? Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Jeremiah Weeps for His People…21For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me. 22Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored? Cross References Matthew 9:12 On hearing this, Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. Genesis 37:25 And as they sat down to eat a meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh on their way down to Egypt. Genesis 43:11 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 carry them down as a gift for the man--a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, pistachios and almonds. Isaiah 1:6 From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness--only wounds and welts and festering sores neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil. Jeremiah 9:1 Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people. Jeremiah 14:19 Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror. Jeremiah 30:13 There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sores, no recovery for you. Treasury of Scripture Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? no balm. Jeremiah 46:11 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 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed. Genesis 37:25 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. no physician. Matthew 9:11,12 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? … Luke 5:31,32 And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick… Luke 8:43 And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, why. Jeremiah 30:12-17 For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous… recovered. Isaiah 1:5,6 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint… Jump to Previous Applied Arts Balm Daughter Dressing Expert Gilead Healing Health Life-Giving Medical Oil Physician Recovered Restored Wherefore WoundJump to Next Applied Arts Balm Daughter Dressing Expert Gilead Healing Health Life-Giving Medical Oil Physician Recovered Restored Wherefore WoundJeremiah 8 1. The calamity of the Jews, both dead and alive.4. He upbraids their foolish and shameless impenitency. 13. He shows their grievous judgment; 18. and bewails their desperate estate. (22) Is there no balm in Gilead . . .?--The resinous gums of Gilead, identified by some naturalists with those of the terebinth, by others with mastich, the gum of the Pistaccia lentiscus, were prominent in the pharmacop?ia of Israel, and were exported to Egypt for the embalmment of the dead (Genesis 37:25; Genesis 43:11; Jeremiah 46:11; Jeremiah 51:8). A plaister of such gums was the received prescription for healing a wound. The question of the prophet is therefore a parable. "Are there no means of healing, no healer to apply them, for the spiritual wounds of Israel? The prophets were her physicians, repentance and righteousness were her balm of Gilead. Why has no balsam-plaister been laid on the daughter of my people? Why so little result from the means which Jehovah has provided?" The imagery re-appears in Jeremiah 46:11; Jeremiah 51:8. The balm which was grown at Jericho under the Roman Empire (Tac, Hist. v. 6; Plin., Nat. Hist. xii. 25), and was traditionally reported to have been brought by the Queen of Sheba, was probably the Amyris Opobalsamum, now cultivated at Mecca, which requires a more tropical climate than that of Gilead. Wyclif's version, "Is there no triacle in Gilead?" may be noted as illustrating the history of a word now obsolete. "Triacle" was the English form of theriacum, the mediaeval panacea for all wounds, and specially for the bites of serpents and venomous beasts. . . . Verse 22. - No hope or remedy is left; again a proverbial expression. No balm in Gilead. Gilead appears to have been celebrated in early times for its balsam, which was expected by Ishmaelites to Egypt (Genesis 37:25) and by Jewish merchants to Tyro (Ezekiel 27:17). It was one of the most costly products of Palestine (Genesis 43:11), and was prized for its medicinal properties in cases of wounds (comp. Jeremiah 46:11; Jeremiah 51:8). Josephus mentions this balsam several times, but states that it only grew at Jericho ('Antiq.,' 15:4,2), Tristram searched for balsam in its ancient haunts, but in vain; he thinks Jeremiah means the Balsamodendron gileadense or opobalsamum, which in Arabia is used as a medicine both internally and externally. But if Pliny ('Hist. Nat.,' 24:22) may be followed in his wide use of the term "balsam" so as to include the exudations of the "lentisens" or mastick tree, then "balm of Gilead" is still to be found; for the mastick tree "grows commonly all over the country, excepting in the plains and the Jordan valley" ('Nat. Hist. of Bible,' p. 336). Is there no physician there? We hear but little of physicians in the Old Testament. They are only mentioned again in Genesis 1:2 (but with reference to Egypt, where medicine was much cultivated), and in 2 Chronicles 16:12; Job 13:4. From the two latter passages we may, perhaps, infer that physicians were rarely successful; and this is certainly the impression produced by Ecclus. 38:15, "He that sinneth before his Maker, let him fall into the hand of the physician." The remedies employed in the Talmudic period quite bear out this strong saying (see Lightfoot, 'Horae Hebraical,' on Mark 5:26). The physicians of Gilead, however, probably confined themselves to their one famous simple, the balsam. Is not the health... recovered? Gesenius renders, less probably, "hath no bandage been applied to the daughter of my people?"
Hebrew Is there noאֵ֣ין (’ên) Adverb Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle balm הַצֳרִי֙ (ha·ṣo·rî) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 6875: Distillation, balsam in Gilead? בְּגִלְעָ֔ד (bə·ḡil·‘āḏ) Preposition-b | Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 1568: Gilead -- a region in Palestine, also the name of several Israelites Is no אֵ֣ין (’ên) Adverb Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle physician רֹפֵ֖א (rō·p̄ê) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 7495: To mend, to cure there? שָׁ֑ם (šām) Adverb Strong's 8033: There, then, thither Why מַדּ֙וּעַ֙ (mad·dū·a‘) Interrogative Strong's 4069: Why? for what reason? then כִּ֗י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction has the health אֲרֻכַ֖ת (’ă·ru·ḵaṯ) Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 724: Healing, restoration of the daughter בַּת־ (baṯ-) Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 1323: A daughter of my people עַמִּֽי׃ (‘am·mî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock not לֹ֣א (lō) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no been restored? עָֽלְתָ֔ה (‘ā·lə·ṯāh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 5927: To ascend, in, actively Links Jeremiah 8:22 NIVJeremiah 8:22 NLT Jeremiah 8:22 ESV Jeremiah 8:22 NASB Jeremiah 8:22 KJV Jeremiah 8:22 BibleApps.com Jeremiah 8:22 Biblia Paralela Jeremiah 8:22 Chinese Bible Jeremiah 8:22 French Bible Jeremiah 8:22 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Jeremiah 8:22 Is there no balm in Gilead? (Jer.) |
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