Is there no balm in Gilead] No humane helps are able to save us. Gilead being famous for the most soveraign balm. Ch. 46. 12. Or, as others, our spirituall Physicians, our Priests and Prophets, residing at Gilead, Hosea 6:8. afford us now no help or comfort.
why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered] Or, why is not the daughter of my people recovered? Heb. why is not cure; or, recovery gone up? 2 Chronicles 24:13, Chap. 30. 17.