Jeremiah 8:22

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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 Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 46:11 : 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.
  • Gen 37:25 : 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.
  • Jer 30:12-17 : 12 For thus said Jehovah: Incurable is thy breach, grievous thy stroke, 13 There is none judging thy cause to bind up, Healing medicines there are none for thee. 14 all loving thee have forgotten thee, Thee they do not seek, For with the stroke of an enemy I smote thee, The chastisement of a fierce one, Because of the abundance of thy iniquity, Mighty have been thy sins! 15 What! -- thou criest concerning thy breach! Incurable `is' thy pain, Because of the abundance of thy iniquity, Mighty have been thy sins! I have done these to thee. 16 Therefore all consuming thee are consumed, And all thine adversaries -- all of them -- Into captivity do go, And thy spoilers have been for a spoil, And all thy plunderers I give up to plunder. 17 For I increase health to thee, And from thy strokes I do heal thee, An affirmation of Jehovah, For `Outcast' they have called to thee, `Zion it `is', there is none seeking for her.'
  • Gen 43:11 : 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;
  • Isa 1:5-6 : 5 Wherefore are ye stricken any more? Ye do add apostacy! Every head is become diseased, and every heart `is' sick. 6 From the sole of the foot -- unto the head, There is no soundness in it, Wound, and bruise, and fresh smiting! They have not been closed nor bound, Nor have they softened with ointment.
  • Jer 51:8 : 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.
  • Matt 9:11-12 : 11 and the Pharisees having seen, said to his disciples, `Wherefore with the tax-gatherers and sinners doth your teacher eat?' 12 And Jesus having heard, said to them, `They who are whole have no need of a physician, but they who are ill;
  • Luke 5:31-32 : 31 And Jesus answering said unto them, `They who are well have no need of a physician, but they that are ill: 32 I came not to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.'
  • Luke 8:43 : 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,

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Jer 8:18-21
    4 verses
    83%

    18My refreshing for me `is' sorrow, For me my heart `is' sick.

    19Lo, the voice of a cry of the daughter of my people from a land afar off, Is Jehovah not in Zion? is her king not in her? Wherefore have they provoked Me with their graven images, With the vanities of a foreigner?

    20Harvest hath passed, summer hath ended, And we -- we have not been saved.

    21For a breach of the daughter of my people have I been broken, I have been black, astonishment hath seized me.

  • Jer 14:17-19
    3 verses
    75%

    17And thou hast said unto them this word: Tears come down mine eyes night and day, And they do not cease, For, `with' a great breach, Broken hath been the virgin daughter of my people, A very grievous stroke.

    18If I have gone forth to the field, Then, lo, the pierced of the sword! And if I have entered the city, Then, lo, the diseased of famine! For both prophet and priest have gone up and down Unto a land that they knew not.

    19Hast Thou utterly rejected Judah? Zion hath Thy soul loathed? Wherefore hast Thou smitten us, And there is no healing to us? Looking for peace, and there is no good, And for a time of healing, and lo, terror.

  • Jer 46:11
    74%

    11Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt, In vain thou hast multiplied medicines, Healing there is none for thee.

  • Jer 30:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12For thus said Jehovah: Incurable is thy breach, grievous thy stroke,

    13There is none judging thy cause to bind up, Healing medicines there are none for thee.

  • Jer 8:11
    74%

    11And they heal the breach of the daughter of my people slightly, Saying, Peace, peace! and there is no peace.

  • Isa 1:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5Wherefore are ye stricken any more? Ye do add apostacy! Every head is become diseased, and every heart `is' sick.

    6From the sole of the foot -- unto the head, There is no soundness in it, Wound, and bruise, and fresh smiting! They have not been closed nor bound, Nor have they softened with ointment.

  • Mic 1:9
    72%

    9For mortal `are' her wounds, For it hath come unto Judah, It hath come to a gate of My people -- to Jerusalem.

  • Lam 2:11-13
    3 verses
    71%

    11Consumed by tears have been my eyes, Troubled have been my bowels, Poured out to the earth hath been my liver, For the breach of the daughter of my people; In infant and suckling being feeble, In the broad places of the city,

    12To their mothers they say, `Where `are' corn and wine?' In their becoming feeble as a pierced one In the broad places of the city, In their soul pouring itself out into the bosom of their mothers.

    13What do I testify `to' thee, what do I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? What do I equal to thee, and I comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? For great as a sea `is' thy breach, Who doth give healing to thee?

  • Isa 22:4
    71%

    4Therefore I said, `Look ye from me, I am bitter in my weeping, Haste not to comfort me, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.'

  • Lam 1:12
    71%

    12`Is it' nothing to you, all ye passing by the way? Look attentively, and see, If there is any pain like my pain, That He is rolling to me? Whom Jehovah hath afflicted In the day of the fierceness of His anger.

  • Jer 6:14
    71%

    14And they heal the breach of the daughter of my people slightly, Saying, `Peace, peace!' and there is no peace.

  • Jer 15:18
    70%

    18Why hath my pain been perpetual? And my wound incurable? It hath refused to be healed, Thou art surely to me as a failing stream, Waters not stedfast.

  • Jer 51:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8Suddenly hath Babylon fallen, Yea, it is broken, howl ye for it, Take balm for her pain, if so be it may be healed.

    9We healed Babylon, and she was not healed, Forsake her, and we go, each to his land, For come unto the heavens hath its judgment, And it hath been lifted up unto the clouds.

  • Jer 30:17
    70%

    17For I increase health to thee, And from thy strokes I do heal thee, An affirmation of Jehovah, For `Outcast' they have called to thee, `Zion it `is', there is none seeking for her.'

  • Jer 10:19
    69%

    19Wo to me for my breaking, Grievious hath been my smiting, And I said, Only, this `is' my sickness, and I bear it.

  • Jer 17:14-15
    2 verses
    69%

    14Heal me, O Jehovah, and I am healed, Save me, and I am saved, for my praise `art' Thou.

    15Lo, they are saying unto me: `Where `is' the word of Jehovah? pray, let it come.'

  • Ps 38:7
    68%

    7For my flanks have been full of drought, And soundness is not in my flesh.

  • Lam 4:6
    68%

    6And greater is the iniquity of the daughter of my people, Than the sin of Sodom, That was overturned as `in' a moment, And no hands were stayed on her.

  • Mic 4:9
    68%

    9Now, why dost thou shout aloud? A king -- is there none in thee? Hath thy counsellor perished, That taken hold of thee hath pain as a travailing woman?

  • Jer 30:15
    68%

    15What! -- thou criest concerning thy breach! Incurable `is' thy pain, Because of the abundance of thy iniquity, Mighty have been thy sins! I have done these to thee.

  • Jer 8:15
    68%

    15Looking for peace -- and there is no good, For a time of healing, and lo, terror.

  • Isa 38:21
    67%

    21And Isaiah saith, `Let them take a bunch of figs, and plaster over the ulcer, and he liveth.'

  • Lam 1:16-18
    3 verses
    67%

    16For these I am weeping, My eye, my eye, is running down with waters, For, far from me hath been a comforter, Refreshing my soul, My sons have been desolate, For mighty hath been an enemy.

    17Spread forth hath Zion her hands, There is no comforter for her, Jehovah hath charged concerning Jacob, His neighbours `are' his adversaries, Jerusalem hath become impure among them.

    18Righteous is Jehovah, For His mouth I have provoked. Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and see my pain, My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

  • Jer 9:1
    67%

    1Who doth make my head waters, And mine eye a fountain of tears? And I weep by day and by night, For the wounded of the daughter of my people.

  • Nah 3:19
    67%

    19There is no weakening of thy destruction, Grievous `is' thy smiting, All hearing thy fame have clapped the hand at thee, For over whom did not thy wickedness pass continually?

  • Hos 5:13
    66%

    13And see doth Ephraim his sickness, and Judah his wound, And Ephraim goeth unto Asshur, And sendeth unto a warlike king, And he is not able to give healing to you, Nor doth he remove from you a scar.

  • Lam 1:4
    66%

    4The ways of Zion are mourning, Without any coming at the appointed time, All her gates are desolate, her priests sigh, Her virgins are afflicted -- and she hath bitterness.

  • Lam 3:48
    66%

    48Rivulets of water go down my eye, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Isa 51:18-19
    2 verses
    66%

    18There is not a leader to her Out of all the sons she hath borne, And there is none laying hold on her hand Out of all the sons she hath nourished.

    19These two are meeting thee, who is moved for thee? Spoiling and destruction -- Famine and sword, who -- I comfort thee?

  • Jer 4:31
    66%

    31For a voice as of a sick woman I have heard, Distress, as of one bringing forth a first-born, The voice of the daughter of Zion, She bewaileth herself, she spreadeth out her hands, `Wo to me now, for weary is my soul of slayers!'

  • Isa 57:18
    66%

    18His ways I have seen, and I heal him, yea, I lead him, And recompense comforts to him and to his mourning ones.

  • Ps 69:20
    66%

    20Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am sick, And I look for a bemoaner, and there is none, And for comforters, and I have found none.

  • Jer 6:26
    65%

    26O daughter of My people, Gird on sackcloth, and roll thyself in ashes, The mourning of an only one make for thee, A lamentation most bitter, For suddenly come doth the spoiler against us.

  • Job 30:25
    65%

    25Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.

  • Lam 1:20
    65%

    20See, O Jehovah, for distress `is' to me, My bowels have been troubled, Turned hath been my heart in my midst, For I have greatly provoked, From without bereaved hath the sword, In the house `it is' as death.

  • Prov 23:35
    65%

    35`They smote me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake -- I seek it yet again!'