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?

[a]Oh, that my head were a spring of water
    and my eyes a fountain of tears!(D)
I would weep(E) day and night
    for the slain of my people.(F)
Oh, that I had in the desert(G)
    a lodging place for travelers,
so that I might leave my people
    and go away from them;
for they are all adulterers,(H)
    a crowd of unfaithful(I) people.

“They make ready their tongue
    like a bow, to shoot lies;(J)
it is not by truth
    that they triumph[b] in the land.
They go from one sin to another;
    they do not acknowledge(K) me,”
declares the Lord.

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:1 In Hebrew texts 9:1 is numbered 8:23, and 9:2-26 is numbered 9:1-25.
  2. Jeremiah 9:3 Or lies; / they are not valiant for truth

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