Matthew 2:18 - English Majority Text Version 2009

¹⁸ "A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted, because they are no more."

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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

Matthew 2:17

Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying:

Luke 8:52

Now all were weeping and mourning for her; but He said, "Do not weep; she is not dead, but asleep."

Revelation 8:13

And I saw, and I heard an eagle flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, "Woe, woe, woe [for] those who dwell on the earth, from the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are to sound [their] trumpets!"