THEOSISJeremiah 8:22Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Is there no balm in Galaad? or is there no physician there? Why then is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed?
הַצֳרִי֙ אֵ֣ין בְּגִלְעָ֔ד אִם־רֹפֵ֖א אֵ֣ין שָׁ֑ם כִּ֗י מַדּ֙וּעַ֙ לֹ֣א עָֽלְתָ֔ה אֲרֻכַ֖ת בַּת־עַמִּֽי׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Gen 37:25And sitting down to eat bread, they saw some Ismaelites on their way coming from Galaad, with their camels, carrying spices, and balm, and myrrh to Egypt.
- Jer 46:11Go up into Galaad, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain dost thou multiply medicines, there shall be no cure for thee.
- Jer 51:8Babylon is suddenly fallen, and destroyed: howl for her, take balm for her pain, if so she may be healed.
- Jer 30:12For thus saith the Lord: Thy bruise is incurable, thy wound is very grievous.
- Jer 30:17For I will close up thy scar, and will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord. Because they have called thee, O Sion, an outcast: This is she that hath none to seek after her.
- 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 5:31And Jesus answering, said to them: They that are whole need not the physician: but they that are sick.
- Luke 5:32I came not to call the just, but sinners to penance.