Hymns of Truth and Light ‎#400

400. There Is a Balm in Gilead

Text Information

• First Line: Sometimes I feel discouraged
• Title: There Is a Balm in Gilead
• Refrain First Line: There is a balm in Gilead
• Meter: 76.76 w. refrain
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1998
• Scripture:
  Jeremiah 8:22
• Source: African-American spiritual

Tune Information

• Name: BALM IN GILEAD
• Meter: 76.76 w. refrain
• Key: F Major or modal
• Source: African-American spiritual

Text Information:

Here is a positive response to the question asked in Jeremiah 8:22: 'Is there no balm in Gilead?' Hope for the future is sustained in the painful present