THEOSISJeremiah 46:11Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Go up into Galaad, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain dost thou multiply medicines, there shall be no cure for thee.
עֲלִ֤י גִלְעָד֙ וּקְחִ֣י צֳרִ֔י בְּתוּלַ֖ת בַּת־מִצְרָ֑יִם לַשָּׁוְא֙ הרביתי הִרְבֵּ֣ית רְפֻא֔וֹת תְּעָלָ֖ה אֵ֥ין לָֽךְ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Jer 8:22Is there no balm in Galaad? or is there no physician there? Why then is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed?
- Mic 1:9Because her wound is desperate, because it is come even to Juda, it hath touched the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
- Isa 47:1Come down, sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne for the daughter of the Chaldeans, for thou shalt no more be called delicate and tender.
- Nah 3:19Thy destruction is not hidden, thy wound is grievous: all that have heard the fame of thee, have clapped their hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
- Luke 8:43And there was a certain woman having an issue of blood twelve years, who had bestowed all her substance on physicians and could not be healed by any.
- Luke 8:44She came behind him and touched the hem of his garment: and immediately the issue of her blood stopped.
- Jer 14:17And thou shalt speak this word to them: Let my eyes shed down tears night and day, and let them not cease, because the virgin daughter of my people is afflicted with a great affliction, with an exceeding grievous evil.
- Matt 5:26Amen I say to thee, thou shalt not go out from thence till thou repay the last farthing.