Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then has not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Balm, (resina) "turpentine "(Calmet) which was much used. (Dioscor. i. 66.)
Galaad was famous for the best, chap. xlvi. 11., and Genesis xxxvii. 25.
Closed? Have I not sent prophets? But they will not be healed. (Calmet)
