4 How beautiful you are, my darling.
How very beautiful!
Behind your veil,
your eyes are doves.^(A)
Your hair is like a flock of goats
streaming down Mount Gilead.^(B)

²² Is there no balm in Gilead?^(A)
Is there no physician there?
So why has the healing of my dear people
not come about?

¹¹ Go up to Gilead and get balm,^(A)
Virgin Daughter Egypt!
You have multiplied remedies in vain;
there is no healing for you.

¹⁹ I will return Israel to his grazing land,^(A)
and he will feed on Carmel and Bashan;
he will be satisfied
in the hill country of Ephraim and of Gilead.^(B)

¹⁴ Shepherd your people^(A) with your staff,^(B)
the flock that is your possession.
They live alone^(C) in a woodland
surrounded by pastures.
Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead^(D)
as in ancient times.^(E)

¹⁰ I will bring them back from the land of Egypt
and gather them from Assyria.
I will bring them to the land of Gilead^(A)
and to Lebanon,
but it will not be enough for them.