The lament “Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow!”, and the question of balm in Gilead
"슬프다 나의 근심이여" 하는 슬픔의 말과 길르앗의 유향에 대한 물음
Jeremiah 8:18–22: the text says, “Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me. Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: ‘Isn’t the LORD in Zion? Isn’t her King in her?’ ‘Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign idols?’ ‘The harvest is past. The summer has ended, and we are not saved.’ For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt. I mourn. Dismay has taken hold of me. Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?” Neither edition names the speaker (“I”). WEB does not say who asks, “Why have they provoked me to anger …?”; the Korean Revised Version gives that question as the LORD’s (그러나 여호와께서는 이르시기를, but the LORD says), and reads 유향 at 8:22, where WEB reads “balm”.
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- JER 8:18–22, engwebp
18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
19Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: “Isn’t the LORD in Zion? Isn’t her King in her?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign idols?”
20“The harvest is past. The summer has ended, and we are not saved.”
21For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt. I mourn. Dismay has taken hold of me.
22Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
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[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: The lament “Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow!”, and the question of balm in Gilead (event-jer-8-is-there-no-balm-in-gilead) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/event/jer-8-is-there-no-balm-in-gilead Current wording: Jeremiah 8:18–22: the text says, “Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me. Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: ‘Isn’t the LORD in Zion? Isn’t her King in her?’ ‘Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign idols?’ ‘The harvest is past. The summer has ended, and we are not saved.’ For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt. I mourn. Dismay has taken hold of me. Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?” Neither edition names the speaker (“I”). WEB does not say who asks, “Why have they provoked me to anger …?”; the Korean Revised Version gives that question as the LORD’s (그러나 여호와께서는 이르시기를, but the LORD says), and reads 유향 at 8:22, where WEB reads “balm”. Cited evidence: JER 8:18–22, engwebp Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending What looks wrong: (not written yet) --- This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.