the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Jeremiah 8:22
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Is there no balm in Gilead?Is there no physician there?So why has the healing of my dear peoplenot come about?
Is there no balm in Gil`ad? is there no physician there? why then isn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
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 in Gilead? Is there 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 has not the health of the daughter of my people been restored?
Isn't there balm in the land of Gilead? Isn't there a doctor there? So why aren't the hurts of my people healed?
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?
Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then isn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Is there no balme at Gilead? is there no Physition there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recouered.
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?
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
If medicine and doctors may be found in Gilead, why aren't my people healed?
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? I wish my head were made of water and my eyes were a fountain of tears, so that I could cry day and night over the slain of the daughter of my people!
Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? Why then is there no dressing applied for the healing of the daughter of my people?
Surely there is some medicine in Gilead. Surely there is a doctor in Gilead. So why are the wounds of my people not healed?
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no healer a there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people restored?
Is there no medicine in Gilead? Are there no doctors there? Why, then, have my people not been healed?
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no healer there? Why, then, has the healing of the daughter of my people not been restored?
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no healer there? Why then has the healing of the daughter of my people not come?
for there is no more Triacle at Galaad, and there is no Phisician, that ca heale the hurte of my people.
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 life-giving oil in Gilead? is there no expert in medical arts? why then have my people not been made well?
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Is there no balme in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recouered?
Is there not triacle at Gilead? Is there no phisitio there? why then is not the health of my people recouered?
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?
Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Whether resyn is not in Galaad, ether a leche is not there? Whi therfor the wounde of the douytir of my puple is not heelid perfitli?
Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then hasn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
[Is there] no balm in Gilead: [is there] no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered.
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?
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?
Is there no medicine in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why is there no healing for the wounds of my people?
Is there no healing oil in Gilead? Is there no doctor there? Why then have my people not been healed?
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of my poor people not been restored?
Balsam, is there none, in Gilead? Is there no physician, there? Why hath not appeared the healing of the daughter of my people?
Is there no balm in Galaad? or is there no physician there? Why then is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed?
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?
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?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
no balm: Jeremiah 46:11, Jeremiah 51:8, Genesis 37:25, Genesis 43:11
no physician: Matthew 9:11, Matthew 9:12, Luke 5:31, Luke 5:32, Luke 8:43
why: Jeremiah 30:12-17
recovered: Heb. gone up, Isaiah 1:5, Isaiah 1:6
Reciprocal: Exodus 15:26 - for I am 2 Chronicles 7:14 - heal their land 2 Chronicles 16:12 - physicians Job 13:4 - physicians Psalms 38:5 - My wounds Jeremiah 6:26 - daughter Jeremiah 9:1 - the daughter Jeremiah 14:19 - no healing Jeremiah 30:13 - hast Lamentations 2:13 - who can Ezekiel 27:17 - balm Ezekiel 34:4 - diseased Ezekiel 47:12 - medicine Hosea 11:3 - I healed Hosea 14:4 - heal Mark 5:26 - had suffered Luke 16:20 - full
Cross-References
And he sendeth forth the dove from him to see whether the waters have been lightened from off the face of the ground,
and the dove hath not found rest for the sole of her foot, and she turneth back unto him, unto the ark, for waters [are] on the face of all the earth, and he putteth out his hand, and taketh her, and bringeth her in unto him, unto the ark.
and the dove cometh in unto him at even-time, and lo, an olive leaf torn off in her mouth; and Noah knoweth that the waters have been lightened from off the earth.
And he stayeth yet other seven days, and sendeth forth the dove, and it added not to turn back unto him any more.
every living thing that [is] with thee, of all flesh, among fowl, and among cattle, and among every creeping thing which is creeping on the earth, bring out with thee;
and they have teemed in the earth, and been fruitful, and have multiplied on the earth.'
And Noah buildeth an altar to Jehovah, and taketh of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and causeth burnt-offerings to ascend on the altar;
`Because these two years the famine [is] in the heart of the land, and yet [are] five years, [in] which there is neither ploughing nor harvest;
`Six days thou dost work, and on the seventh day thou dost rest; in ploughing-time and in harvest thou dost rest.
And they have not said in their heart, `Let us fear, we pray you, Jehovah our God, who is giving rain, The sprinkling and the gathered, in its season, The appointed weeks of harvest He keepeth for us.'
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Is there no balm in Gilead?.... Which was famous for it; see
Genesis 37:25, or rather turpentine or rosin, a gum which drops from pine trees and the like; since balm or balsam grew on this side Jordan, near Jericho and Engedi, and not beyond Jordan, in the land of Gilead; and rosin is good for healing. Some render it "treacle", but very wrongly, since, as Calvin observes, that is a composition of many things,
Is there no physician there? or surgeon, anyone that heals wounds and bruises; very probably there were many such lived in Gilead, since it was a place where proper medicines were to be got and applied: this may be understood of prophets and teachers, who, in a moral and spiritual sense, are instruments of healing of men, by showing them their evil, calling them to repentance, and directing where to go for healing or pardon of sin; namely, to Christ, the alone physician, and to his precious blood, shed for the remission of sins. Some reference may be had to Elijah, who was of Gilead, and to the school of the prophets there, 1 Kings 17:1. The Targum is,
"Jeremiah the prophet said, perhaps there are no good works in me, that I should supplicate for the house of Israel; should I not desire the doctrine of Elijah the prophet, who was of Gilead, whose words were healing?''
Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? that is, seeing there is balm in Gilead, and a physician there, how comes it to pass that such medicine is not made use of, and such a physician not applied to, that health might be restored? This shows the stupidity, sluggishness, and indolence of the people, and how inexcusable they were, as well as the prophet's great concern for their welfare; the want of means of deliverance, or non-attendance to them, or the failure of them.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
No physician there - i. e., in Gilead. Balm used to grow in Israel for the healing of the nations. Her priests and prophets were the physicians. Has Israel then no balm for herself? Is there no physician in her who can bind up her wound? Gilead was to Israel what Israel spiritually was to the whole world.
Why then is not the health ... recovered? - Or, “why then has no bandage,” or plaster of balsam, “been laid upon my people?”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Jeremiah 8:22. Is there no balm in Gilead? — Yes, the most excellent in the world. "Is there no physician there?" Yes, persons well skilled to apply it. "Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?" Because ye have not applied to the physician, nor used the balm. Ye die because ye will not use the remedy. But to apply this metaphor: - The Israelites are represented as a man dying through disease; and a disease for the cure of which the balm of Gilead was well known to be a specific, when judiciously applied by a physician. But though there be balm and a physician, the people are not cured; neither their spiritual nor political evils are removed. But what may all this spiritually mean? The people are morally diseased; they have sinned against God, and provoked him to destroy them. They are warned by the prophet to repent and turn to God: they refuse, and sin on. Destruction is come upon them. Might they not have avoided it? Yes. Was it the fault of God? No. Did he not send his prophets with the richest offers of mercy? Did he not give them time, the best instructions, and the most effectual means of returning to him? Has not mercy, the heavenly balm, been ever at hand? And has not GOD, the great Physician, been ever ready to apply it? Yes. Why then are they not converted and healed? Because they would not apply to the Divine Physician, nor receive the only remedy by which they could be spiritually healed. They, then, that sin against the only remedy must perish, because they might have had it, but would not. It is not because there is a deficiency of grace, nor of the means of grace, that men are not saved; but because they either make no use, or a bad use, of them. Jesus Christ, by the grace of God, has tasted death for every man; but few are saved, because they WILL NOT come unto him that they may have life.
In my old MS. Bible the text is rendered thus: -
Whether gumm is not in Galaad? Or a leche is not there? Why than the hid wounde of the daughter of my peple is not alle helid?
How shall they escape who neglect so great a salvation? Reader, lay this to heart; and, while there is time, apply heartily to the great Physician for thy cure.
