22Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
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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.
And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous. …
And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-22)In these verses we have, I. God threatening the destruction of a sinful people. He has borne long with them, but they are still more and more provoking, and therefore now their ruin is resolved on: I will surely consume them (Jer. 8:13), consuming I will consume them , not only surely, but utterly, consume them, will follow them with one judgment after another, till they are quite consumed; it is…
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