Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Disease » Prevention and cure of » Medicine
Is there no balm in
Is there no physician there?
Why then has not the [spiritual] health of the daughter of my people been restored?
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 or remedy.
A happy heart is good medicine and a joyful mind causes healing,
But a broken spirit dries up the bones.
‘There is no one to plead your cause;
No [device to close and allow the] healing of your wound,
No recovery for you.
By the river on its bank, on one side and on the other, will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither and their fruit will not fail. They shall bear every month because their water flows from the sanctuary, and their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.”
Verse Concepts
Disease » Instances of » Remedies used
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 or remedy.
Blows that wound cleanse away evil,
And strokes reach to the innermost parts.
Now Isaiah had said, “Have them take a cake of figs and rub it [as an ointment] on the inflamed spot, that he may recover.”
Verse Concepts
A happy heart is good medicine and a joyful mind causes healing,
But a broken spirit dries up the bones.
‘There is no one to plead your cause;
No [device to close and allow the] healing of your wound,
No recovery for you.
Diseases » Medicine used for curing
From the sole of the foot even to the head
There is nothing healthy in the nation’s body,
Only bruises, welts, and raw wounds,
Not pressed out or bandaged,
Nor softened with oil [as a remedy].
A happy heart is good medicine and a joyful mind causes healing,
But a broken spirit dries up the bones.
Heart » Merry hearts
A heart full of joy and goodness makes a cheerful face,
But when a heart is full of sadness the spirit is crushed.
A happy heart is good medicine and a joyful mind causes healing,
But a broken spirit dries up the bones.
Joy » Earthly » Innocent mirth
A happy heart is good medicine and a joyful mind causes healing,
But a broken spirit dries up the bones.
Go your way, eat your bread with joy and drink your wine with a cheerful heart [if you are righteous, wise, and in the hands of God]; for God has already approved and accepted your works.
Verse Concepts
Then all the people went on their way to eat, to drink, to send portions [of food to others] and to celebrate a great festival, because they understood the words which had been communicated to them.
Verse Concepts
‘From them (city, palace) will come [songs of] thanksgiving
And the voices of those who dance and celebrate.
And I will multiply them and they will not be diminished [in number];
I will also honor them and they will not be insignificant.
Prevention and cure of diseases » Medicine
Is there no balm in
Is there no physician there?
Why then has not the [spiritual] health of the daughter of my people been restored?
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 or remedy.
A happy heart is good medicine and a joyful mind causes healing,
But a broken spirit dries up the bones.
‘There is no one to plead your cause;
No [device to close and allow the] healing of your wound,
No recovery for you.
By the river on its bank, on one side and on the other, will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither and their fruit will not fail. They shall bear every month because their water flows from the sanctuary, and their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.”
Verse Concepts
Social duties » Brotherly love » Cheerfulness, the duty of
A heart full of joy and goodness makes a cheerful face,
But when a heart is full of sadness the spirit is crushed.
A happy heart is good medicine and a joyful mind causes healing,
But a broken spirit dries up the bones.
So keep up your courage, men, for I believe God and have complete confidence in Him that it will turn out exactly as I have been told;
Verse Concepts
Then all of them were encouraged and their spirits improved, and they also ate some food.
Verse Concepts
Spirit/souls » Broken spirits
A heart full of joy and goodness makes a cheerful face,
But when a heart is full of sadness the spirit is crushed.
A happy heart is good medicine and a joyful mind causes healing,
But a broken spirit dries up the bones.