Jeremiah 46:11
Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shall you use many medicines; you shall not be cured.
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Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts
Go up to Gilead and get balm, Virgin Daughter Egypt. But you multiply remedies in vain; there is no healing for you.
King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
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.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
Go up{H5927} into Gilead,{H1568} and take{H3947} balm,{H6875} O virgin{H1330} daughter{H1323} of Egypt:{H4714} in vain{H7723} dost thou use many{H7235} medicines;{H7499} there is no healing{H8585} for thee.
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
Go up{H5927}{(H8798)} into Gilead{H1568}, and take{H3947}{(H8798)} balm{H6875}, O virgin{H1330}, the daughter{H1323} of Egypt{H4714}: in vain{H7723} shalt thou use many{H7235}{(H8689)} medicines{H7499}; for thou shalt not be cured{H8585}.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
Go vp (o Galaad) & bringe triacle vnto the doughter off Egipte: But in vayne shalt thou go to surgery, for thy wounde shall not be stopped.
Geneva Bible (1560)
Goe vp vnto Gilead, and take balme, O virgine, the daughter of Egypt: in vaine shalt thou vse many medicines: for thou shalt haue no health.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
Go vp vnto Gilead, and bryng triacle O virgin thou daughter of Egypt: but in vayne shalt thou go to surgerie, for thy wounde shall not be stopped.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
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.
Webster's Bible (1833)
Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain do you use many medicines; there is no healing for you.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt, In vain thou hast multiplied medicines, Healing there is none for thee.
American Standard Version (1901)
Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain dost thou use many medicines; there is no healing for thee.
American Standard Version (1901)
Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain dost thou use many medicines; there is no healing for thee.
Bible in Basic English (1941)
Go up to Gilead and take sweet oil, O virgin daughter of Egypt: there is no help in all your medical arts; nothing will make you well.
World English Bible (2000)
Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain do you use many medicines; there is no healing for you.
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
Go up to Gilead and get medicinal ointment, you dear poor people of Egypt. But it will prove useless no matter how much medicine you use; there will be no healing for you.
Referenced Verses
- Jer 8:22 : 22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? Why then is the health of the daughter of my people not recovered?
- Mic 1:9 : 9 For her wound is incurable; for it has come to Judah; it has reached the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
- Isa 47:1 : 1 Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground. There is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans, for you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
- Nah 3:19 : 19 There is no healing for your bruise; your wound is grievous: all that hear the report of you shall clap their hands over you: for upon whom has not your wickedness passed continually?
- Matt 5:26 : 26 Truly I say to you, you will by no means come out of there till you have paid the last penny.
- Luke 8:43-44 : 43 And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, who had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed by any, 44 Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stopped.
- Jer 14:17 : 17 Therefore, you shall speak this word to them: 'Let my eyes flow with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.'
- Jer 30:12-15 : 12 For thus says the LORD, Your bruise is incurable, and your wound is severe. 13 There is no one to plead your cause, that you may be bound up; you have no healing medicines. 14 All your lovers have forgotten you; they do not seek you; for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of your iniquity; because your sins have increased. 15 Why do you cry over your affliction? Your sorrow is incurable because of the multitude of your iniquity: because your sins have increased, I have done these things to you.
- Jer 51:8 : 8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed; howl for her, take balm for her pain, if perhaps she may be healed.
- Ezek 27:17 : 17 Judah and the land of Israel, they were your merchants: they traded in your market with wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
- Ezek 30:21-25 : 21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, behold, it will not be bound up to be healed, to wrap with a bandage, to become strong to hold the sword. 22 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong and the broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand. 23 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries. 24 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he will groan before him with the groanings of a mortally wounded man. 25 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and Pharaoh's arms will fall down; and they will know that I am the LORD, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt.
- Gen 37:25 : 25 And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
- Gen 43:11 : 11 And their father Israel said to them, If it must be so, then do this; take some of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down a gift for the man, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Jer 30:12-154 verses76%
12 For thus says the LORD, Your bruise is incurable, and your wound is severe.
13 There is no one to plead your cause, that you may be bound up; you have no healing medicines.
14 All your lovers have forgotten you; they do not seek you; for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of your iniquity; because your sins have increased.
15 Why do you cry over your affliction? Your sorrow is incurable because of the multitude of your iniquity: because your sins have increased, I have done these things to you.
- Jer 46:19-202 verses75%
19 O daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction comes; it comes out of the north.
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22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? Why then is the health of the daughter of my people not recovered?
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12 The nations have heard of your shame, and your cry has filled the land: for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, and they have both fallen together.
- Jer 51:8-92 verses72%
8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed; howl for her, take balm for her pain, if perhaps she may be healed.
9 We would have healed Babylon, but she cannot be healed; forsake her, and let us go everyone into his own country, for her judgment reaches unto heaven and is lifted up even to the skies.
- Isa 1:5-62 verses72%
5 Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, nor bound up, nor soothed with ointment.
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1 Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground. There is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans, for you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
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13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then Ephraim went to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet he could not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
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2 Who walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
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22 The LORD shall smite Egypt; He shall smite and heal it, and they shall return to the LORD. He shall be entreated by them and shall heal them.
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16 This is the lamentation with which they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, for Egypt, and for all her multitude, says the Lord GOD.
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4 Why do you boast in the valleys, your flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? Who trusted in her treasures, saying, Who will come against me?
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24 The daughter of Egypt shall be ashamed; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
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13 What can I witness for you? what can I liken to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? what can I compare to you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? for your ruin is vast like the sea: who can heal you?
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2 The virgin of Israel has fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
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9 For her wound is incurable; for it has come to Judah; it has reached the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
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12 And he said, You shall rejoice no more, O oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, cross over to Chittim; there also you shall have no rest.
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27 The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof you cannot be healed.
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30 And when you are ruined, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with crimson, though you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold, though you paint your face, in vain shall you make yourself beautiful; your lovers will despise you, they will seek your life.
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17 For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says the LORD; because they called you an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no one seeks after.
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27 Thus will I make your lewdness cease from you, and your harlotry brought from the land of Egypt: so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.
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7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
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19 There is no healing for your bruise; your wound is grievous: all that hear the report of you shall clap their hands over you: for upon whom has not your wickedness passed continually?
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4 And the sword will come upon Egypt, and great pain will be in Ethiopia, when the slain fall in Egypt, and they take away her multitude, and her foundations are broken down.
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1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help; and rely on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek the LORD!
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8 Therefore hear this now, you that are given to pleasures, that dwell carelessly, that say in your heart, 'I am, and there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, nor shall I know the loss of children.'
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21 Thus you called to remembrance the lewdness of your youth, in bruising your breasts by the Egyptians for the pleasures of your youth.
- Ezek 32:18-192 verses67%
18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, her and the daughters of famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit.
19 Whom do you surpass in beauty? go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised.
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16 Take a harp, go about the city, you harlot that has been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that you may be remembered.
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12 Stand now with your enchantments and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth. Perhaps you will be able to profit, perhaps you may prevail.
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36 Why do you go about so much to change your way? you also shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria.
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19 Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You struck us down, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, but behold, trouble!
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26 And said, If you will diligently listen to the voice of the LORD your God, and will do what is right in his sight, and will give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon you, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD who heals you.
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15 And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, you remnant of Judah; Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If you wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to live there;
- Jer 42:18-192 verses67%
18 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As my anger and my fury have been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when you shall enter into Egypt: and you shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more.
19 The LORD has said concerning you, O you remnant of Judah; Do not go into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.
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43 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have grieved me in all these things; behold, therefore I will recompense your way upon your head, says the Lord GOD; and you shall not commit this lewdness above all your abominations.
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8 In that you provoke me to wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to dwell, that you might cut yourselves off, and that you might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
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26 O daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make lamentation, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.
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35 Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD;
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19 These two things have come upon you; who shall feel sorry for you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort you?
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8 She did not leave her harlotries brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their harlotry upon her.
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21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, behold, it will not be bound up to be healed, to wrap with a bandage, to become strong to hold the sword.