Parallel Verses
Youngs 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?
New American Standard Bible
Is there no physician there?
King James 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?
Holman Bible
Is there no physician there?
So why has the healing of my dear
not come about?
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International Standard Version
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? So why is there no healing for my people?
A Conservative Version
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
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?
Amplified
Is there no balm in
Is there no physician there?
Why then has not the [spiritual] health of the daughter of my people been restored?
Bible in Basic English
Is there no life-giving oil in Gilead? is there no expert in medical arts? why then have my people not been made well?
Darby Translation
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?
Julia Smith Translation
Is there no balsam in Gilead, or healing there? for wherefore did not the health of the daughter of my people go up?
King James 2000
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then has not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Lexham Expanded Bible
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?
Modern King James verseion
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the healing of the daughter of My people not come?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
for there is no more treacle at Gilead, and there is no Physician, that can heal the hurt 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 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?
The Emphasized Bible
Balsam, is there none, in Gilead? Is there no physician, there? Why hath not appeared the healing of the daughter of my people?
Webster
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?
Themes
Disease » Prevention and cure of » Physicians
Disease » Healed » Physicians employed in
Disease » Prevention and cure of » Medicine
Disease » Instances of » Physicians employed for
Disease » Instances of » Ointments
spiritual Disease » General references to
Diseases » Physicians undertook the cure of
Gilead » Exported spices » Balm » myrrh
Prevention and cure of diseases » Physicians
Topics
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 8:22
Prayers for Jeremiah 8:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
Lament Over Judah
21 For a breach of the daughter of my people have I been broken, I have been black, astonishment hath seized me. 22 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?
Cross References
Genesis 37:25
And they sit down to eat bread, and they lift up their eyes, and look, and lo, a company of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, and their camels bearing spices, and balm, and myrrh, going to take them down to Egypt.
Jeremiah 46:11
Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt, In vain thou hast multiplied medicines, Healing there is none for thee.
Genesis 43:11
And Israel their father saith unto them, 'If so, now, this do: take of the praised thing of the land in your vessels, and take down to the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts and almonds;
Isaiah 1:5-6
Wherefore are ye stricken any more? Ye do add apostasy! Every head is become diseased, and every heart is sick.
Jeremiah 30:12-17
For thus said Jehovah: Incurable is thy breach, grievous thy stroke,
Jeremiah 51:8
Suddenly hath Babylon fallen, Yea, it is broken, howl ye for it, Take balm for her pain, if so be it may be healed.
Matthew 9:11-12
and the Pharisees having seen, said to his disciples, 'Wherefore with the tax-gatherers and sinners doth your teacher eat?'
Luke 5:31-32
And Jesus answering said unto them, 'They who are well have no need of a physician, but they that are ill:
Luke 8:43
and a woman, having an issue of blood for twelve years, who, having spent on physicians all her living, was not able to be healed by any,