1. Jeremiah 8:22 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What is the answer to the question of verse 22?

Jeremiah 8:22 (ESV)

22 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?

The answer is: yes and no. Yes, because God is still there, and help is always to be found in him. No, because the people do not seek help from God. That is why people will perish from this ailment and be sent away from the Promised Land. In the next verse, Jeremiah 9:1, Jeremiah says it is so bad that he cannot stop crying. Why didn’t the people seek healing from God in time?