balm

And they sate downe to eat bread: and they lift vp their eyes and looked, and behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead, with their camels, bearing spicery, & baulme, and myrrhe, going to cary it downe to Egypt.

And their father Israel said vnto them, If it must bee so now, doe this: take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carie downe the man a Present, a litle balme, and a litle honie, spices, and myrrhe, nuts, and almonds.

Is there no balme in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recouered?

1611 marginal noteHeb. gone vp.

1611 marginal noteChap. 46.11.

Goe vp into Gilead, and take balme, O virgine, the daughter of Egypt: in vaine shalt thou vse many medicines: for thou shalt not be cured.

1611 marginal noteHebr. no cure shalbe vnto thee.

Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howle for her, take balme for her paine, if so be she may be healed.

1611 marginal noteIsa.21.9. reu.14.8. and 18.2.

Iudah and the land of Israel they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheate of Minnith, and Pannag, and honie, and oyle, & balme.

1611 marginal noteOr, rosin.