[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 Gilead was precious balm, (Jeremiah 46:11) or else deriding the vain confidence of the people, who looked to their priests for help, who would have been the physicians of their soul, and dwelt at Gilead, (Hosea 6:8).