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From Jeremiah 8:22: "Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there?"This is a relatively famous Bible verse referenced in the African American spiritual "There Is a Balm in Gilead" and in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" ("Is there, is there balm in Gilead? -- tell me truly, I implore"). The phrase "balm in Gilead" is a metaphor for hope, or for redemption through God.

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