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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Jeremiah 8:22

Balm, ( resina) "turpentine," (Calmet) which was much used. (Dioscor. i. 66.) --- Galaad was famous for the best, chap. xlvi. 11., and Genesis xxxvii. 25. --- Closed? Have I not sent prophets? But they will not be healed. (Calmet)

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See also Jeremiah 8:22 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 8:22. IS THERE _NO BALM IN GILEAD?_] Yes, the most excellent in the world. "Is there no physician there?" Yes, persons well skilled to apply it. "Why then is not the health of the daug...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    NO PHYSICIAN THERE - i. e., in Gilead. Balm used to grow in Israel for the healing of the nations. Her priests and prophets were the physicians. Has Israel then no balm for herself? Is there no physic...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The horrors of the invasion (Jeremiah 8:1) _ 2. Hardened hearts and retribution (Jeremiah 8:4) 3. Utter destruction threatened (Jeremiah 8:13) 4. The prophet's lamentation ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 8:18 TO JEREMIAH 9:1. JEREMIAH'S SORROW OVER JUDAH'S SUFFERING. The prophet, in sorrowful sympathy with his people, hears in anticipation the cry of the exiles and Yahweh's answer. They repro...

  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    IS THERE NO BALM IN GILEAD? In Gilead,. district east of the Jordan,. tree produced the celebrated balm which was so useful in healing hurts and wounds. When the prophet weeps over the "hurt of the d...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BALM... PHYSICIAN. The words of the prophet, showing that healing remedies were employed; thus accounting for the silence respecting them. Compare Isaiah 1:6. BALM. balSamaritan Pentateuch Compare Je...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jeremiah 8:4 to Jeremiah 9:1. Forecast of punishment as the result of sin The section may be thus summarized. (i) Jeremiah 8:4. Human fortunes and conduct are as a rule liable to change, but Israel...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _balm_ For balsam (balm) as a product of Gilead, see Genesis 37:25 and cp. Genesis 43:11; Ezekiel 27:17. As, however, some doubt has been thrown on Gilead as a place producing balsam, it has been sugg...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1044 CHRIST OUR PHYSICIAN Jeremiah 8:22. _In there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?_ AS the Eastern langua...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1043 THE REMEDY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE LOST THEIR SEASONS OF GRACE Jeremiah 8:20. _The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    IS THERE NO BALM IN GILEAD?— "Whence then comes it that the wound of my people hath not been closed? Is it my fault? Have I not sent you prophets? Have I not given you time, instructions, and means to...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    D. Unbearable Pain on the Part of the Prophet Jeremiah 8:18 to Jeremiah 9:1 TRANSLATION (18) O my Comfort against sorrow! My heart is faint within me! (19) Behold, the sound of the cry of the daughte...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? IS THERE NO BALM - balsam; to be applied to the wounds of my people. Brou...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    'Is there no way of saving this people?' GILEAD was a mountainous part of Palestine E, of the Jordan. BALM (balsam) was found there, and naturally in the same place would be found those skilled in its...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-3. The dead shall share in the universal punishment....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    IS THERE NO BALM IN GILEAD...? — The resinous gums of Gilead, identified by some naturalists with those of the terebinth, by others with mastich, the gum of the _Pistaccia lentiscus,_ were prominent i...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הַ צֳרִי֙ אֵ֣ין בְּ גִלְעָ֔ד אִם ־רֹפֵ֖א

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a fin

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    FALSE PROMISES OF PEACE Jeremiah 8:4-22 This chapter is filled with denunciation of the unreasonable and infatuated obstinacy of Israel. As the horse rushes madly to the fight, so were the people set...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Utter desolation would overtake them so that death would be chosen rather than life. This sin of idolatry had been aggravated by the people's terrible persistence therein. If men fall it is naturally...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    [Is there] no balm (r) in Gilead; [is there] no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? (r) Meaning,that no man's help or means could save them: for in Gile...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS BEHOLD my soul, from the perusal of this Chapter, what a poor, ignorant, unthinking, and improvident creature is man! The birds of the air, and the beasts of the field, do, by instinct, wh...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I bring the whole of this beautiful Chapter, from this verse to the end into one view, for the sake of shortness, and from necessity; but otherwise nothing could be more desirable than to dwell upon e...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _‘THE BALM OF GILEAD’_ ‘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 It is wonderful what a parallel of...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet intimates in these words that the slaughter of the people would be so fatal that they would in vain seek remedies; as though he had said, that the disease would be incurable, and altogethe...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9. Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple, which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without conscience, wo...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    IS THERE NO BALM IN GILEAD?.... Which was famous for it; see Genesis 37:25, or rather turpentine or rosin, a gum which drops from pine trees and the like; since balm or balsam grew on this side Jorda...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Jeremiah 8:22 [Is there] no balm in Gilead; [is there] no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? Ver. 22. _Is there no balm in Gilead?_] Yes, surely, ther...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt_, &c. These are the words of the prophet, lamenting the miserable condition of his country. The Hebrew is more literally rendered, _For the breach...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Is there no balm in Gilead? the reference being to a balsam which was in wide use in the Orient for the cooling and healing of wounds. IS THERE NO PHYSICIAN THERE? Because this balsam, found chiefly i...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    FURTHER DESCRIPTION OF THE IMPENDING PUNISHMENT...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    RECOVERED?: _ Heb._ gone up...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    14-22 At length they begin to see the hand of God lifted up. And when God appears against us, every thing that is against us appears formidable. As salvation only can be found in the Lord, so the pre...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    OLBGrk; Gilead was eminent for balm, GENESIS 43:11, taken for _rosin or turpentine_, which is a kind of more liquid rosin, and either flows or drops from certain trees of its own accord, or their juic...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 8:22 balm H6875 Gilead H1568 physician H7495 (H8802) then H3588 recovery H5927 (H8804) health H724 daughte

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 8:22 I. Sin is the consumption not of the body, but of the soul, and without seeking to establish any curious analogies, but supposing that you were a mere neutral visitor, a mere unconcerned...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bo...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, continued. Terrible judgments impending. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Impenitence brings certain ruin. All the boasted wisdom of man cannot serve to k...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah of the princes of the priests, and the bones_ (as in the Chaldaic) _of the_ false _prophets._ They shall spread them be...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Is there no balm in Gilead?_ Is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of My people recovered? PHYSIC FROM HEAVEN I. The balsam tree is a little shrub, never growing p...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 8:18 In this exchange between Judah and God, the people claim that God has deserted them, but God notes their ongoing worship of idols. They reply that they ARE NOT SAVED (an...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Chronology and History, as in chap. 7. Observe, however, that a new section in this extended prophetic address commenced with Jeremiah 8:4, which continues to chap. Jere...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 8:1 Punishment will even overtake the sinners who have long since been deceased. JEREMIAH 8:1 THEY SHALL BRING OUT THE BONES. Not only shall many of the dead bodies remain unbur...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inha...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Genesis 37:25; Genesis 43:11; Isaiah 1:5; Isaiah 1:6; Jeremiah 30:12;

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