21 I am [a]sore vexed for the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am heavy, and astonishment hath taken me.

22 Is there no balm [b]at Gilead? is there no Physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 8:21 The Prophet speaketh this.
  2. Jeremiah 8:22 Meaning, that no man’s help or means could save them: for in Gilead was precious balm, Jer. 46:11, or else deriding the vain confidence of the people, who looked for help at their Priests, who should have been the Physicians of their souls, and dwelt at Gilead, Hos. 6:8.

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