²² Is there no balm in Gilead?^(A)
    Is there no physician^(B) there?
Why then is there no healing^(C)
    for the wound of my people?

¹³ There is no one to plead your cause,^(A)
    no remedy for your sore,
    no healing^(B) for you.

⁴ I will build you up again,
    and you, Virgin^(A) Israel, will be rebuilt.^(B)
Again you will take up your timbrels^(C)
    and go out to dance^(D) with the joyful.^(E)

²¹ “Set up road signs;
    put up guideposts.^(A)
Take note of the highway,^(B)
    the road that you take.
Return,^(C) Virgin^(D) Israel,
    return to your towns.

⁸ Babylon will suddenly fall^(A) and be broken.
    Wail over her!
Get balm^(B) for her pain;
    perhaps she can be healed.