²² Is there no balm in Gilead?^(A)
    Is there no physician^(B) there?
Why then is there no healing^(C)
    for the wound of my people?

¹¹ “Go up to Gilead and get balm,^(A)
    Virgin^(B) Daughter Egypt.
But you try many medicines in vain;
    there is no healing^(C) for you.

“‘Your wound^(A) is incurable,
    your injury beyond healing.^(B)
13 There is no one to plead your cause,^(C)
    no remedy for your sore,
    no healing^(D) for you.
¹⁴ All your allies^(E) have forgotten you;
    they care nothing for you.
I have struck you as an enemy^(F) would
    and punished you as would the cruel,^(G)
because your guilt is so great
    and your sins^(H) so many.
¹⁵ Why do you cry out over your wound,
    your pain that has no cure?^(I)
Because of your great guilt and many sins
    I have done these things to you.^(J)

¹⁶ “‘But all who devour^(K) you will be devoured;
    all your enemies will go into exile.^(L)
Those who plunder^(M) you will be plundered;
    all who make spoil of you I will despoil.
¹⁷ But I will restore you to health
    and heal^(N) your wounds,’
declares the Lord,
‘because you are called an outcast,^(O)
    Zion for whom no one cares.’^(P)