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But you try many medicines in vain; there is no healing for you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/jeremiah/46.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />“Go up to Gilead to get medicine, O virgin daughter of Egypt! But your many treatments will bring you no healing.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/jeremiah/46.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you have used many medicines; there is no healing for you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/jeremiah/46.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Go up to Gilead for balm, O Virgin Daughter of Egypt! In vain you try many remedies, but for you there is no healing.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/jeremiah/46.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; <i>for</i> thou shalt not be cured.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/jeremiah/46.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />“Go up to Gilead and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt; In vain you will use many medicines; You shall not be cured.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/jeremiah/46.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Go up to Gilead and obtain balm, Virgin daughter of Egypt! You have used many remedies in vain; There is no healing for you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/46.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Go up to Gilead and obtain balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain have you multiplied remedies; There is no healing for you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/jeremiah/46.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Go up to Gilead and obtain balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain have you multiplied remedies; There is no healing for you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/jeremiah/46.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Go up to Gilead and obtain balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain have you multiplied remedies; There is no healing for you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/jeremiah/46.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Go up to Gilead and obtain [healing] balm, O Virgin Daughter of Egypt! In vain you use many medicines; For you there is no healing <i>or</i> remedy.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/jeremiah/46.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Go up to Gilead and get balm, Virgin Daughter Egypt! You have multiplied remedies in vain; there is no healing for you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/jeremiah/46.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Go up to Gilead and get balm, Virgin Daughter Egypt! You have multiplied remedies in vain; there is no healing for you. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/jeremiah/46.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain dost thou use many medicines; there is no healing for thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/jeremiah/46.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Egypt, no medicine can heal you, not even the soothing lotion from Gilead. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/jeremiah/46.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain dost thou use many medicines; there is no healing for thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/jeremiah/46.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Go to Gilead, and get medicine, dear people of Egypt. You have used many medicines without results; you can't be cured.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/jeremiah/46.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />People of Egypt, go to Gilead and look for medicine! All your medicine has proved useless; nothing can heal you. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/jeremiah/46.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Go up to Gilead and get balm, virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you multiply remedies, but there is no healing for you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/jeremiah/46.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Go up to Gilead for balm, O Virgin Daughter of Egypt! In vain you try many remedies, but for you there is no healing.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/jeremiah/46.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Go up to Gilead and get medicinal ointment, you dear poor people of Egypt. But it will prove useless no matter how much medicine you use; there will be no healing for you. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/jeremiah/46.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain do you use many medicines; there is no healing for you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/jeremiah/46.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/jeremiah/46.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt. You use many medicines in vain. There is no healing for you. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/jeremiah/46.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Go up to Gilead, and take balm, "" O virgin daughter of Egypt, "" You have multiplied medicines in vain, "" There is no healing for you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/jeremiah/46.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt, In vain thou hast multiplied medicines, Healing there is none for thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/jeremiah/46.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Go up to Gilead, and take balsam, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou bring up many healings; none to thee.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/jeremiah/46.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Go up into Galaad, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain dost thou multiply medicines, there shall be no cure for thee. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/jeremiah/46.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Ascend to Gilead, and take its balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! It is in vain that you multiply medicines; there will be no health for you!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/jeremiah/46.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Go up to Gilead, procure balm, Virgin daughter Egypt! No use to multiply remedies; for you there is no healing. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/jeremiah/46.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter Egypt! In vain you have used many medicines; there is no healing for you.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/jeremiah/46.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Go up to Gilead and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt! In vain you shall use many medicines; for you shall not be healed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/jeremiah/46.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Go up to Gelad and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt. You have multiplied remedies for nothing, and it was not a benefit for you<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/jeremiah/46.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt; In vain dost thou use many medicines; There is no cure for thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/jeremiah/46.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Go up to Galaad, and take balm for the virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain hast thou multiplied thy medicines; there is no help in thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/46-11.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5k55c51ZGhs?start=13873" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/jeremiah/46.htm">The Judgment on Egypt</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">10</span>For that day belongs to the Lord GOD of Hosts, a day of vengeance against His foes. The sword will devour until it is satisfied, until it is quenched with their blood. For the Lord GOD of Hosts will hold a sacrifice in the land of the north by the River Euphrates. <span class="reftext">11</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/5927.htm" title="5927: ‘ă·lî (V-Qal-Imp-fs) -- A primitive root; to ascend, intransitively or actively; used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative.">Go up</a> <a href="/hebrew/1568.htm" title="1568: ḡil·‘āḏ (N-proper-fs) -- Probably from Gal'ed; Gilad, a region East of the Jordan; also the name of three Israelites.">to Gilead</a> <a href="/hebrew/3947.htm" title="3947: ū·qə·ḥî (Conj-w:: V-Qal-Imp-fs) -- To take. A primitive root; to take.">for</a> <a href="/hebrew/6875.htm" title="6875: ṣo·rî (N-ms) -- (a kind of) balsam. Or tsoriy; from an unused root meaning to crack, hence, to leak; distillation, i.e. Balsam.">balm,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1330.htm" title="1330: bə·ṯū·laṯ (N-fsc) -- Feminine passive participle of an unused root meaning to separate; a virgin; sometimes a bride; also a city or state.">O Virgin</a> <a href="/hebrew/1323.htm" title="1323: baṯ- (N-fsc) -- Daughter. From banah; a daughter.">Daughter</a> <a href="/hebrew/4714.htm" title="4714: miṣ·rā·yim (N-proper-fs) -- A son of Ham, also his desc. and their country in N.W. Africa. Dual of matsowr; Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt.">of Egypt!</a> <a href="/hebrew/7723.htm" title="7723: laš·šāw (Prep-l, Art:: N-ms) -- Or shav; from the same as show' in the sense of desolating; evil, literally or morally; figuratively idolatry, uselessness.">In vain</a> <a href="/hebrew/7235.htm" title="7235: hir·bē·ṯī (V-Hifil-Perf-2fs) -- To be or become much, many or great. A primitive root; to increase.">you try many</a> <a href="/hebrew/7499.htm" title="7499: rə·p̄u·’ō·wṯ (N-fp) -- Remedy, medicine. Feminine passive participle of rapha'; a medicament.">remedies,</a> <a href="/hebrew/lāḵ (Prep:: 2fs) -- ">but for you</a> <a href="/hebrew/369.htm" title="369: ’ên (Adv) -- As if from a primitive root meaning to be nothing or not exist; a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle.">there is no</a> <a href="/hebrew/8585.htm" title="8585: tə·‘ā·lāh (N-fs) -- A channel, a bandage, plaster. From alah; a channel; also a bandage or plaster.">healing.</a> </span><span class="reftext">12</span>The nations have heard of your shame, and your outcry fills the earth, because warrior stumbles over warrior and both of them have fallen together.”…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/47-1.htm">Isaiah 47:1-3</a></span><br />“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate. / Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams. / Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/30-21.htm">Ezekiel 30:21-25</a></span><br />“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. See, it has not been bound up for healing, or splinted for strength to hold the sword. / Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt. I will break his arms, both the strong one and the one already broken, and will make the sword fall from his hand. / I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/nahum/3-19.htm">Nahum 3:19</a></span><br />There is no healing for your injury; your wound is severe. All who hear the news of you applaud your downfall, for who has not experienced your constant cruelty?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/30-7.htm">Isaiah 30:7</a></span><br />Egypt’s help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/19-11.htm">Isaiah 19:11-15</a></span><br />The princes of Zoan are mere fools; Pharaoh’s wise counselors give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise, a son of eastern kings”? / Where are your wise men now? Let them tell you and reveal what the LORD of Hosts has planned against Egypt. / The princes of Zoan have become fools; the princes of Memphis are deceived. The cornerstones of her tribes have led Egypt astray. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/18-23.htm">Revelation 18:23</a></span><br />The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/29-6.htm">Ezekiel 29:6-7</a></span><br />Then all the people of Egypt will know that I am the LORD. For you were only a staff of reeds to the house of Israel. / When Israel took hold of you with their hands, you splintered, tearing all their shoulders; when they leaned on you, you broke, and their backs were wrenched.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/31-1.htm">Isaiah 31:1-3</a></span><br />Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD. / Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers. / But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/5-13.htm">Hosea 5:13</a></span><br />When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria and sent to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/1-6.htm">Isaiah 1:6</a></span><br />From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness—only wounds and welts and festering sores neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/3-17.htm">Revelation 3:17</a></span><br />You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/20-5.htm">Isaiah 20:5-6</a></span><br />Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed. / And on that day the dwellers of this coastland will say, ‘See what has happened to our source of hope, those to whom we fled for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/18-21.htm">2 Kings 18:21</a></span><br />Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/57-9.htm">Isaiah 57:9-10</a></span><br />You went to Molech with oil and multiplied your perfumes. You have sent your envoys a great distance; you have descended even to Sheol itself. / You are wearied by your many journeys, but you did not say, “There is no hope!” You found renewal of your strength; therefore you did not grow weak.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/29-16.htm">Ezekiel 29:16</a></span><br />Egypt will never again be an object of trust for the house of Israel, but will remind them of their iniquity in turning to the Egyptians. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.”</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shall you use many medicines; for you shall not be cured.</p><p class="hdg">Gilead</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/8-22.htm">Jeremiah 8:22</a></b></br> <i>Is there</i> no balm in Gilead; <i>is there</i> no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/51-8.htm">Jeremiah 51:8</a></b></br> Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/37-25.htm">Genesis 37:25</a></b></br> And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry <i>it</i> down to Egypt.</p><p class="hdg">O virgin</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/14-17.htm">Jeremiah 14:17</a></b></br> Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/47-1.htm">Isaiah 47:1</a></b></br> Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: <i>there is</i> no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.</p><p class="hdg">in vain</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/30-12.htm">Jeremiah 30:12-15</a></b></br> For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise <i>is</i> incurable, <i>and</i> thy wound <i>is</i> grievous… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/30-21.htm">Ezekiel 30:21-25</a></b></br> Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/micah/1-9.htm">Micah 1:9</a></b></br> For her wound <i>is</i> incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, <i>even</i> to Jerusalem.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/jeremiah/27-9.htm">Arts</a> <a href="/jeremiah/8-22.htm">Balm</a> <a href="/jeremiah/33-6.htm">Cure</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/28-35.htm">Cured</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-22.htm">Daughter</a> <a href="/jeremiah/46-8.htm">Egypt</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-6.htm">Gilead</a> <a href="/jeremiah/33-6.htm">Healing</a> <a href="/jeremiah/37-20.htm">Help</a> <a href="/jeremiah/8-22.htm">Medical</a> <a href="/jeremiah/30-13.htm">Medicines</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-3.htm">Multiplied</a> <a href="/jeremiah/33-22.htm">Multiply</a> <a href="/isaiah/51-11.htm">Obtain</a> <a href="/jeremiah/41-8.htm">Oil</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-26.htm">Sweet</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-23.htm">Use</a> <a href="/jeremiah/33-4.htm">Used</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-32.htm">Vain</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-21.htm">Virgin</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezekiel/12-24.htm">Arts</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-8.htm">Balm</a> <a href="/hosea/5-13.htm">Cure</a> <a href="/matthew/4-24.htm">Cured</a> <a href="/jeremiah/46-19.htm">Daughter</a> <a href="/jeremiah/46-13.htm">Egypt</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-19.htm">Gilead</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-9.htm">Healing</a> <a href="/jeremiah/47-3.htm">Help</a> <a href="/matthew/9-12.htm">Medical</a> <a href="/ezekiel/30-21.htm">Medicines</a> <a href="/lamentations/2-5.htm">Multiplied</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-7.htm">Multiply</a> <a href="/lamentations/2-9.htm">Obtain</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-8.htm">Oil</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-8.htm">Sweet</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-45.htm">Use</a> <a href="/jeremiah/52-18.htm">Used</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-30.htm">Vain</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-22.htm">Virgin</a><div class="vheading2">Jeremiah 46</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-1.htm">Jeremiah prophesies the overthrow of Pharaoh's army at Euphrates</a></span><br><span class="reftext">13. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-13.htm">and the conquest of Egypt by Nebuchadnezzar</a></span><br><span class="reftext">27. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-27.htm">He comforts Jacob in his chastisement</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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This phrase suggests seeking healing or relief, drawing on the historical reputation of Gilead's balm. The balm of Gilead is also mentioned in <a href="/genesis/37-25.htm">Genesis 37:25</a> and <a href="/jeremiah/8-22.htm">Jeremiah 8:22</a>, symbolizing healing and restoration. The call to go to Gilead implies a search for a remedy that is ultimately futile for Egypt, highlighting the inadequacy of earthly solutions for spiritual or divine judgments.<p><b>O Virgin Daughter of Egypt!</b><br>The term "Virgin Daughter" is a poetic expression used to personify Egypt, suggesting purity or invulnerability. However, in this context, it is ironic, as Egypt is neither pure nor invulnerable. This phrase reflects Egypt's perceived strength and pride, which will be humbled by God's judgment. Similar language is used in <a href="/isaiah/47.htm">Isaiah 47:1</a> for Babylon, indicating a common biblical theme of nations being brought low.<p><b>In vain you try many remedies</b><br>This phrase underscores the futility of Egypt's efforts to heal or save itself through its own means. Historically, Egypt was known for its advanced medicine and numerous gods, yet these would prove ineffective against the divine judgment pronounced by God. This mirrors the broader biblical theme that human efforts are insufficient without God's intervention, as seen in <a href="/psalms/127.htm">Psalm 127:1</a>.<p><b>but for you there is no healing</b><br>The finality of this statement emphasizes the certainty of Egypt's downfall. Despite attempts at self-preservation, Egypt cannot escape the consequences of its actions. This reflects the biblical principle that true healing and salvation come only from God, as seen in passages like <a href="/isaiah/30-15.htm">Isaiah 30:15</a>. The lack of healing for Egypt contrasts with the ultimate healing and redemption offered through Jesus Christ, the true balm for humanity's spiritual wounds.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/g/gilead.htm">Gilead</a></b><br>A region east of the Jordan River, known for its balm, a healing ointment. In the context of this verse, it symbolizes a place of supposed healing and remedy.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/v/virgin_daughter_of_egypt.htm">Virgin Daughter of Egypt</a></b><br>A metaphorical reference to Egypt, portraying it as a young, untouched nation. This imagery suggests vulnerability and impending judgment.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/j/jeremiah.htm">Jeremiah</a></b><br>The prophet who delivered God's messages, including warnings and prophecies concerning nations like Egypt.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/e/egypt.htm">Egypt</a></b><br>A powerful nation during Jeremiah's time, often in conflict with Israel and Judah. Here, it is depicted as seeking healing in vain.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/b/balm.htm">Balm</a></b><br>A healing ointment from Gilead, symbolizing attempts at self-healing or reliance on earthly remedies rather than seeking God.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_futility_of_earthly_remedies.htm">The Futility of Earthly Remedies</a></b><br>Earthly solutions and self-reliance often fail to address spiritual and moral decay. True healing comes from God alone.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_illusion_of_security.htm">The Illusion of Security</a></b><br>Like Egypt, nations and individuals may feel secure in their strength and resources, but without God, this security is an illusion.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_call_to_repentance.htm">The Call to Repentance</a></b><br>God's warnings are opportunities for repentance. Ignoring them leads to inevitable judgment and consequences.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_spiritual_healing.htm">The Importance of Spiritual Healing</a></b><br>Just as physical ailments require proper treatment, spiritual ailments need divine intervention and healing through Christ.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/trust_in_god's_sovereignty.htm">Trust in God's Sovereignty</a></b><br>Recognize God's control over nations and history. Trust in His plans and purposes, even when they involve judgment.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_jeremiah_46.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Jeremiah 46</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_is_the_balm_of_gilead.htm">What is the Balm of Gilead?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_isaiah_47_1_refer_to_babylon.htm">Isaiah 47:1 – How can this prophecy definitively refer to historical Babylon if the text also appears to address a personified enemy not clearly identified in contemporary records? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_to_reconcile_jer._46_25-26_with_other_scriptures.htm">Jeremiah 46:25-26 - How can we harmonize Jehovah's pronouncement of destruction on Egypt with other Scriptures that portray God's relationship with nations differently?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_does_jer._46_13_conflict_with_history.htm">Jeremiah 46:13 - Why does this prophecy about Nebuchadnezzar's invasion of Egypt seemingly conflict with reports of the extent of Babylonian control in some historical sources?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/jeremiah/46.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(11) <span class= "bld">Go up into Gilead, and take balm . . .</span>--The words have the tone of a triumphant irony. The "balm of Gilead" was looked on as a cure for all wounds (<a href="/jeremiah/8-22.htm" title="Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?">Jeremiah 8:22</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/51-8.htm" title="Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.">Jeremiah 51:8</a>), but the wounds which Egypt received at Carchemish would be found incurable. It proved, in fact, to be a blow from which the old Egyptian monarchy never recovered. In the "virgin, the daughter of Egypt"--virgin, as being till then, as it boasted, unconquered (<a href="/isaiah/23-12.htm" title="And he said, You shall no more rejoice, O you oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shall you have no rest.">Isaiah 23:12</a>)--we have a like touch of sarcasm. The report of the defeat and the utter rout and confused flight that followed (<a href="/jeremiah/46-12.htm" title="The nations have heard of your shame, and your cry has filled the land: for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.">Jeremiah 46:12</a>) would spread far and wide among the nations.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/jeremiah/46.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 11.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Go up into Gilead</span> (see on Jeremiah 8:22). <span class="cmt_word">In vain shalt thou use,</span> etc.; rather, <span class="accented">in vain hast thou used</span>, etc.; a much more vigorous, pictorial expression. <span class="cmt_word">Thou shalt not be cured.</span> The literal rendering is more forcible, <span class="accented">there is no plaster for thee</span>; <span class="accented">i.e.</span> no bandage will avail to heal the wound (comp. <a href="/jeremiah/30-13.htm">Jeremiah 30:13</a>). <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/jeremiah/46-11.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Go up</span><br /><span class="heb">עֲלִ֤י</span> <span class="translit">(‘ă·lî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5927.htm">Strong's 5927: </a> </span><span class="str2">To ascend, in, actively</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to Gilead</span><br /><span class="heb">גִלְעָד֙</span> <span class="translit">(ḡil·‘āḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1568.htm">Strong's 1568: </a> </span><span class="str2">Gilead -- a region in Palestine, also the name of several Israelites</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[for]</span><br /><span class="heb">וּקְחִ֣י</span> <span class="translit">(ū·qə·ḥî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3947.htm">Strong's 3947: </a> </span><span class="str2">To take</span><br /><br /><span class="word">balm,</span><br /><span class="heb">צֳרִ֔י</span> <span class="translit">(ṣo·rî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6875.htm">Strong's 6875: </a> </span><span class="str2">Distillation, balsam</span><br /><br /><span class="word">O Virgin</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּתוּלַ֖ת</span> <span class="translit">(bə·ṯū·laṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1330.htm">Strong's 1330: </a> </span><span class="str2">A virgin, sometimes, a bride</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Daughter</span><br /><span class="heb">בַּת־</span> <span class="translit">(baṯ-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1323.htm">Strong's 1323: </a> </span><span class="str2">A daughter</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of Egypt!</span><br /><span class="heb">מִצְרָ֑יִם</span> <span class="translit">(miṣ·rā·yim)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4714.htm">Strong's 4714: </a> </span><span class="str2">Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa</span><br /><br /><span class="word">In vain</span><br /><span class="heb">לַשָּׁוְא֙</span> <span class="translit">(laš·šāw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7723.htm">Strong's 7723: </a> </span><span class="str2">Evil, idolatry, uselessness</span><br /><br /><span class="word">you multiply</span><br /><span class="heb">הִרְבֵּ֣ית</span> <span class="translit">(hir·bêṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Perfect - second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7235.htm">Strong's 7235: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be or become much, many or great</span><br /><br /><span class="word">remedies;</span><br /><span class="heb">רְפֻא֔וֹת</span> <span class="translit">(rə·p̄u·’ō·wṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7499.htm">Strong's 7499: </a> </span><span class="str2">Remedy, medicine</span><br /><br /><span class="word">there is no</span><br /><span class="heb">אֵ֥ין</span> <span class="translit">(’ên)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_369.htm">Strong's 369: </a> </span><span class="str2">A non-entity, a negative particle</span><br /><br /><span class="word">healing for you.</span><br /><span class="heb">תְּעָלָ֖ה</span> <span class="translit">(tə·‘ā·lāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8585.htm">Strong's 8585: </a> </span><span class="str2">A channel, a bandage, plaster</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/46-11.htm">Jeremiah 46:11 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/jeremiah/46-11.htm">Jeremiah 46:11 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/jeremiah/46-11.htm">Jeremiah 46:11 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/46-11.htm">Jeremiah 46:11 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/jeremiah/46-11.htm">Jeremiah 46:11 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/46-11.htm">Jeremiah 46:11 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/jeremiah/46-11.htm">Jeremiah 46:11 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/jeremiah/46-11.htm">Jeremiah 46:11 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/jeremiah/46-11.htm">Jeremiah 46:11 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/jeremiah/46-11.htm">Jeremiah 46:11 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/jeremiah/46-11.htm">OT Prophets: Jeremiah 46:11 Go up into Gilead and take balm (Jer.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/jeremiah/46-10.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 46:10"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 46:10" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/jeremiah/46-12.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 46:12"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 46:12" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>