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Jeremiah 46:11  New English Translation

11 Go up to Gilead and get medicinal ointment,[a]
you dear poor people of Egypt.[b]
But it will prove useless no matter how much medicine you use;[c]
there will be no healing for you.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 46:11 tn Heb “balm.” See 8:22 and the notes on this phrase there.
  2. Jeremiah 46:11 sn Heb “Virgin Daughter of Egypt.” See the study note on Jer 14:17 for the significance of the use of this figure. Here it may compare Egypt’s geographical isolation to the safety and protection enjoyed by a virgin living at home under her father’s protection (so F. B. Huey, Jeremiah, Lamentations [NAC], 379). By her involvement in the politics of Palestine Egypt had forfeited that safety and protection and was now suffering for it.
  3. Jeremiah 46:11 tn Heb “In vain you multiply [= make use of many] medicines.”
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