11 (A)Go up to Gilead, and take (B)balm,
    O virgin daughter of Egypt!
In vain you have used many medicines;
    (C)there is no healing for you.

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

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(A)For her wound is incurable,
    and it has come to Judah;
it has reached to the gate of my people,
    to Jerusalem.

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The Humiliation of Babylon

47 (A)Come down and sit in the dust,
    O virgin (B)daughter of Babylon;
(C)sit on the ground without a throne,
    O daughter of (D)the Chaldeans!
(E)For you shall no more be called
    tender and delicate.

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43 And there was a woman (A)who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and though she had spent all her (B)living on physicians,[a] she could not be healed by anyone. 44 She came up behind him and touched (C)the fringe of his garment, and (D)immediately her discharge of blood ceased.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 8:43 Some manuscripts omit and though she had spent all her living on physicians

19 There is no easing your hurt;
    (A)your wound is grievous.
All who hear the news about you
    (B)clap their hands over you.
For (C)upon whom has not come
    your unceasing evil?

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26 Truly, I say to you, (A)you will never get out until you have paid the last penny.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 5:26 Greek kodrantes, Roman copper coin (Latin quadrans) worth about 1/64 of a denarius (which was a day's wage for a laborer)

21 (A)“Son of man, (B)I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and behold, (C)it has not been bound up, to heal it by binding it with a bandage, so that it may become strong to wield the sword. 22 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt and (D)will break his arms, both the strong arm and the one that was broken, and I will make the sword fall from his hand. 23 (E)I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them through the countries. 24 And (F)I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put (G)my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before him (H)like a man mortally wounded. 25 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall. (I)Then they shall know that I am the Lord, (J)when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt.

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17 Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged for your merchandise (A)wheat of (B)Minnith, meal,[a] honey, oil, and (C)balm.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 27:17 The meaning of the Hebrew word is unknown

(A)Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken;
    (B)wail for her!
(C)Take balm for her pain;
    perhaps she may be healed.

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12 “For thus says the Lord:
(A)Your hurt is incurable,
    (B)and your wound is grievous.
13 There is none to uphold your cause,
    no medicine for your wound,
    (C)no healing for you.
14 (D)All your lovers have forgotten you;
    they care nothing for you;
for I have dealt you the blow of (E)an enemy,
    the punishment (F)of a merciless foe,
because your guilt is great,
    (G)because your sins are flagrant.
15 (H)Why do you cry out over your hurt?
    (I)Your pain is incurable.
Because your guilt is great,
    (J)because your sins are flagrant,
    I have done these things to you.

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17 “You shall say to them this word:
(A)‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day,
    and let them not cease,
for the virgin (B)daughter of my people is shattered with a great wound,
    (C)with a very grievous blow.

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11 Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: take some of the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry a present down to the man, a little (A)balm and a little honey, gum, myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds.

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25 Then they sat down to eat. And looking up they saw a (A)caravan of (B)Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing (C)gum, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry it down to Egypt.

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