²² Is there no ^(A)balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
^(B)Why then has not the ^[a]health of the daughter of my people gone up?

‘Your injury is incurable,
And your ^(A)wound is desperately sick.
¹³ There is no one to plead your cause;
No healing for your sore,
^(B)No recovery for you.
¹⁴ All your ^(C)lovers have forgotten you;
They do not seek you;
For I have ^[a](D)wounded you with the wound of an enemy,
With the ^(E)punishment of a ^(F)cruel one,
Because your ^(G)iniquity is numerous
And your ^(H)sins are mighty.
¹⁵ Why do you cry out over your injury?
Your pain is incurable.
Because your iniquity is numerous
And your sins are mighty,
I have done these things to you.