“ Go up to Gilead to get medicine, O virgin daughter of Egypt! But your many treatments will bring you no healing.

埃及的民哪，可以上基列取乳香去；你虽多服良药，总是徒然，不得治好。

少女埃及啊，要上基列去取乳香；你虽服用许多药，还是徒然，不得治好。

少女埃及啊，要上基列去取乳香；你虽服用许多药，还是徒然，不得治好。

埃及人啊，去基列取乳香吧！然而，再多的良药也无法医治你们。

埃及的人民哪，上基列去取乳香吧！你虽多用药物都是无效，你必不得医治。

埃及的民哪，可以上基列取乳香去；你雖多服良藥，總是徒然，不得治好。

少女埃及啊，要上基列去取乳香；你雖服用許多藥，還是徒然，不得治好。

少女埃及啊，要上基列去取乳香；你雖服用許多藥，還是徒然，不得治好。

埃及人啊，去基列取乳香吧！然而，再多的良藥也無法醫治你們。

埃及的人民哪，上基列去取乳香吧！你雖多用藥物都是無效，你必不得醫治。

埃及的子民哪，上基列去取止痛乳香吧！你雖多用良藥，總是徒然，新肉你總不長的。

埃及處女歟、其往基列而取乳香、爾用多藥、亦屬徒然、不可醫也、

埃及人往基列、求乳香藥品、雖多無益、必不得醫、

伊及民民原文作處女歟、可往基列求乳香、雖多服良藥、徒然無益、必不得痊、

“ Go up to Gilead and get balm, Virgin Daughter Egypt. But you try many medicines in vain; there is no healing for you.

“ People of Egypt, go up to Gilead and get some healing lotion. You may try many medicines, but you will not be healed. There isn’t any healing for you.

Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you have used many medicines; there is no healing for you.

Go up to Gilead and get balm, Virgin Daughter Egypt! You have multiplied remedies in vain; there is no healing for you.

Go up to Gilead and obtain balm, Virgin daughter of Egypt! You have used many remedies in vain; There is no healing for you.

“ Go up to Gilead and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt; In vain you will use many medicines; You shall not be cured.

Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain dost thou use many medicines; there is no healing for thee.

Go up to Gilead and get balm, Virgin Daughter Egypt! You have multiplied remedies in vain; there is no healing for you.

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.

Go up to Gilead and get medicinal ointment, you dear poor people of Egypt. But it will prove useless no matter how much medicine you use; there will be no healing for you.

Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt. You use many medicines in vain. There is no healing for you.

Is there no medicine in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why is there no healing for the wounds of my people?

For my people’s wound is too deep to heal. It has reached into Judah, even to the gates of Jerusalem.

“ Come down, virgin daughter of Babylon, and sit in the dust. For your days of sitting on a throne have ended. O daughter of Babylonia, never again will you be the lovely princess, tender and delicate.

There is no healing for your wound; your injury is fatal. All who hear of your destruction will clap their hands for joy. Where can anyone be found who has not suffered from your continual cruelty?

A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding, and she could find no cure.Coming up behind Jesus, she touched the fringe of his robe. Immediately, the bleeding stopped.

So their father, Jacob, finally said to them,“ If it can’t be avoided, then at least do this. Pack your bags with the best products of this land. Take them down to the man as gifts— balm, honey, gum, aromatic resin, pistachio nuts, and almonds.

“ Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. His arm has not been put in a cast so that it may heal. Neither has it been bound up with a splint to make it strong enough to hold a sword.Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am the enemy of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt! I will break both of his arms— the good arm along with the broken one— and I will make his sword clatter to the ground.I will scatter the Egyptians to many lands throughout the world.I will strengthen the arms of Babylon’s king and put my sword in his hand. But I will break the arms of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he will lie there mortally wounded, groaning in pain.I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, while the arms of Pharaoh fall useless to his sides. And when I put my sword in the hand of Babylon’s king and he brings it against the land of Egypt, Egypt will know that I am the Lord.

Then, just as they were sitting down to eat, they looked up and saw a caravan of camels in the distance coming toward them. It was a group of Ishmaelite traders taking a load of gum, balm, and aromatic resin from Gilead down to Egypt.

And if that happens, you surely won’t be free again until you have paid the last penny.

Now, Jeremiah, say this to them:“ Night and day my eyes overflow with tears. I cannot stop weeping, for my virgin daughter— my precious people— has been struck down and lies mortally wounded.

But suddenly Babylon, too, has fallen. Weep for her. Give her medicine. Perhaps she can yet be healed.

This is what the Lord says:“ Your injury is incurable— a terrible wound.There is no one to help you or to bind up your injury. No medicine can heal you.All your lovers— your allies— have left you and do not care about you anymore. I have wounded you cruelly, as though I were your enemy. For your sins are many, and your guilt is great.Why do you protest your punishment— this wound that has no cure? I have had to punish you because your sins are many and your guilt is great.

Judah and Israel traded for your wares, offering wheat from Minnith, figs, honey, olive oil, and balm.