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20 And the people say, “Harvest time is over;
    summer has ended,
and we have not been ·saved [rescued].”

21 Because my people are ·crushed [broken; fractured], I am ·crushed [broken; fractured].
    I ·cry loudly [mourn; lament; wail] and ·am afraid for them [L horror has seized me].
22 Isn’t there balm [C the resin of the storax tree used as medicine] in the land of Gilead [C southern section of the Transjordan region]?
    Isn’t there a doctor there?
    So why ·aren’t the hurts of my people healed [L is there no new skin on the wound of the daughter of my people]?

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20 “The harvest is past,
    the summer has ended,
    and we are not saved.”

21 Since my people are crushed,(A) I am crushed;
    I mourn,(B) and horror grips me.
22 Is there no balm in Gilead?(C)
    Is there no physician(D) there?
Why then is there no healing(E)
    for the wound of my people?

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