Bible Strands
Jeremiah 30:13
There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sores, no recovery for you.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The Lord speaks through Jeremiah to Israel and Judah during a prophetic declaration of judgment, immediately after stating their injury is incurable and their wound grievous.
The words — דָּן (dan) means “pleads,” and תְּעָלָה (te'alah) means “healing.” The text literally declares there is no one to plead their cause and no healing medication for their sores.
The thread — Jeremiah 46:11 records the futility of seeking balm and remedies, while Jeremiah 8:22 questions the absence of balm and physicians. Jeremiah 30:17 directly contrasts this void with the Lord’s promise to restore health and heal wounds.
Why it lands — It requires the reader to acknowledge the impossibility of human remedy for spiritual injury, accept the stated cause of divine discipline, and look exclusively to the Lord’s promised restoration rather than external solutions.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 46:11 Go up to Gilead for balm, O Virgin Daughter of Egypt! In vain you try many remedies, but for you there is no healing.
- Jeremiah 8:22 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
- Jeremiah 30:17 But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”
- Jeremiah 33:6 Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
- Exodus 15:26 saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
- Deuteronomy 32:39 See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
- Job 5:18 For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
- Job 34:29 But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,
- Psalms 106:23 So He said He would destroy them—had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.
- Psalms 142:4 Look to my right and see; no one attends to me. There is no refuge for me; no one cares for my soul.