Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Bible References

In vain

Matthew 5:26
It is true when I say to you, you will not be released from there until you have paid the last coin. [Note: The coin mentioned here amounted to about ten minutes' worth of a farm laborer's pay, or a little over one dollar in 1994].
Luke 8:43
Then a woman, who had been bleeding for twelve years, and who had spent all her income on doctors without being healed by any of them,