“Return, you backsliding children, And I will heal your backslidings.” “Indeed we do come to You, For You are the Lord our God.

They have also healed the hurt of My people slightly, Saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ When there is no peace.

For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of My people slightly, Saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ When there is no peace.

“We looked for peace, but no good came; And for a time of health, and there was trouble!

Is there no balm in Gilead, Is there no physician there? Why then is there no recovery For the health of the daughter of my people?

The People Plead for Mercy

Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You stricken us so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but there was no good; And for the time of healing, and there was trouble.

Why is my pain perpetual And my wound incurable, Which refuses to be healed? Will You surely be to me like an unreliable stream, As waters that fail?

Jeremiah Prays for Deliverance

Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved, For You are my praise.

There is no one to plead your cause, That you may be bound up; You have no healing medicines.

For I will restore health to you And heal you of your wounds,’ says the Lord, ‘Because they called you an outcast saying: “This is Zion; No one seeks her.” ’

Behold, I will bring it health and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.

Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed. Wail for her! Take balm for her pain; Perhaps she may be healed.

We would have healed Babylon, But she is not healed. Forsake her, and let us go everyone to his own country; For her judgment reaches to heaven and is lifted up to the skies.