²² A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

⁶ From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

²¹ For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.

²² Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

¹³ There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.