Matthew 2:18 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁸ For this is he that was spoken of by Isaias the prophet, saying: A voice of one crying in the desert, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ In Rama was there a voice heard, Lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, And would not be comforted, because they are not.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be comforted, because they were no more. [Jer. 31:15.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ A voice was heard in Ramah, Weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; And she would not be comforted, because they are not.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and much grieving. Rachel weeping for her children, and she did not want to be comforted, because they were no more.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ "A voice has been heard in Ramah, great weeping and wailing: Rachel crying for her sons. And she was not willing to be consoled, because they were no more."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ A voice in Rama was heard, lamentation and great mourning; Rachel bewailing her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

Matthew 2:18 Cross References

Genesis 37:30

1 And they took his coat, and dipped it in the blood of a kid, which they had killed :

Genesis 42:36

7 And Ruben answered him: Kill my two sons if I bring him not again to thee: deliver him unto my hand, and I will restore him to thee.

Job 14:10

5 Thou shalt call me, and I will answer thee: to the work of thy hands thou shalt reach out thy right hand.

Jeremiah 31:15

3 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: As yet shall they say this word in the land of Juda, and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring back their captivity: The Lord bless thee, the beauty of justice, the holy mountain.

Jeremiah 4:31

They are become as amorous horses and stallions, every one neighed after his neighbor's wife.

Ezekiel 2:10

Behold I have made thy face stronger than their faces: and thy forehead harder than their foreheads.

Matthew 2:17

And saying: Do penance: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Luke 8:52

And whatsoever house you shall enter into, abide there, and depart not from thence.

Revelation 8:13

And they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was as the noise of chariots and many horses running to battle.