Jeremiah 46:11 “Go up to Gilead for balm, O Virgin Daughter of Egypt! In vain you try…”

Jeremiah 46:11

Go up to Gilead for balm, O Virgin Daughter of Egypt! In vain you try many remedies, but for you there is no healing.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James 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.

World English Bible

Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt. You use many medicines in vain. There is no healing for you.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

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.

Darby Translation

Go up to Gilead, and fetch balm, O virgin-daughter of Egypt! In vain shalt thou multiply remedies: there is no healing for thee.

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

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.

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Cross references

“Gilead”

Jeremiah 8:22 Jeremiah 51:8 Genesis 37:25 Genesis 43:11 Ezekiel 27:17

Jeremiah 8:22 · BSB

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?

Jeremiah 51:8 · BSB

Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her; get her balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.

Genesis 37:25 · BSB

And as they sat down to eat a meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh on their way down to Egypt.

Genesis 43:11 · BSB

Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your packs and carry them down as a gift for the man—a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh…

Ezekiel 27:17 · BSB

Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged wheat from Minnith, cakes and honey, oil and balm for your merchandise.

“O virgin”

Jeremiah 14:17 Isaiah 47:1

Jeremiah 14:17 · BSB

You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.

Isaiah 47:1 · BSB

“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.

“in vain”

Micah 1:9 Nahum 3:19 Jeremiah 30:12–15 Ezekiel 30:21–25 Matthew 5:26 Luke 8:43

Micah 1:9 · BSB

For her wound is incurable; it has reached even Judah; it has approached the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem itself.

Nahum 3:19 · BSB

There is no healing for your injury; your wound is severe. All who hear the news of you applaud your downfall, for who has not experienced your constant cruelty?

Jeremiah 30:12–15 · BSB

For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous.

Ezekiel 30:21–25 · BSB

“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. See, it has not been bound up for healing, or splinted for strength to hold the sword.

Matthew 5:26 · BSB

Truly I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.

Luke 8:43 · BSB

including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10For that day belongs to the Lord GOD of Hosts, a day of vengeance against His foes. The sword will devour until it is satisfied, until it is quenched with their blood. For the Lord GOD of Hosts will hold a sacrifice in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.

12The nations have heard of your shame, and your outcry fills the earth, because warrior stumbles over warrior and both of them have fallen together.”

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