Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible



Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people been restored?

Go up to Gilead and obtain balm,
O virgin daughter of Egypt!
In vain have you multiplied remedies;
There is no healing for you.


‘There is no one to plead your cause;
No healing for your sore,
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 will bear every month because their water flows from the sanctuary, and their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.”


Go up to Gilead and obtain balm,
O virgin daughter of Egypt!
In vain have you multiplied remedies;
There is no healing for you.

Stripes that wound scour away evil,
And strokes reach the innermost parts.

Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover.”


‘There is no one to plead your cause;
No healing for your sore,
No recovery for you.


From the sole of the foot even to the head
There is nothing sound in it,
Only bruises, welts and raw wounds,
Not pressed out or bandaged,
Nor softened with oil.







Go then, eat your bread in happiness and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works.

All the people went away to eat, to drink, to send portions and to celebrate a great festival, because they understood the words which had been made known to them.

‘From them will proceed thanksgiving
And the voice of those who celebrate;
And I will multiply them and they will not be diminished;
I will also honor them and they will not be insignificant.

for this son of mine was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.’ And they began to celebrate.


Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people been restored?

Go up to Gilead and obtain balm,
O virgin daughter of Egypt!
In vain have you multiplied remedies;
There is no healing for you.


‘There is no one to plead your cause;
No healing for your sore,
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 will bear every month because their water flows from the sanctuary, and their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.”





Therefore, keep up your courage, men, for I believe God that it will turn out exactly as I have been told.

All of them were encouraged and they themselves also took food.