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 Jeremiah 51:8.
Gilead. Compare Jeremiah 46:11.
Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 8:22
Jeremiah 8:22
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?