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Jeremiah 8:22
Jeremiah 8:22 is verse 22 of Jeremiah chapter 8, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
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 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?
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?
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Jeremiah 8:20–22 · Berean Standard Bible
20 “The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.”
21 For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.
22 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Jeremiah 46:11Go up to Gilead for balm, O Virgin Daughter of Egypt! In vain you try many remedies, but for you there is no healing.
Jeremiah 51:8Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her; get her balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.
Genesis 37:25And 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 43:11Then 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.
Matthew 9:11When the Pharisees saw this, they asked His disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
Matthew 9:12On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
Luke 5:31Jesus answered, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
Luke 5:32I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
Luke 8:43including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.
Jeremiah 30:12For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous.
Jeremiah 30:13There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sores, no recovery for you.
Jeremiah 30:14All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins.
Jeremiah 30:15Why do you cry out over your wound? Your pain has no cure! Because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins I have done these things to you.
Jeremiah 30:16Nevertheless, all who devour you will be devoured, and all your adversaries—every one of them— will go off into exile. Those who plundered you will be plundered, and all who raided you will be raided.
Jeremiah 30:17But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”
Isaiah 1:5Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.
Isaiah 1:6From 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.