“Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Jeremiah 8 contains 22 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.