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20 The harvest has passed,
    the summer has come to an end,
and we have not received help.[a]

Yahweh’s Lament

21 “Because of the wound of the daughter of my people I am broken down,
    I mourn, horror has seized me.
22 Is there no balm in Gilead?
    Is there no healer there?
Why, then, has the healing of the daughter of my people not been restored?

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 8:20 Or “been saved”

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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