Matthew 2:18 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁸ “A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and weeping, and great mourning – Raḥĕl weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted, because they were 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."

Matthew 2:18 Cross References

Jeremiah 31:15

Thus said יהוה, “A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing, bitter weeping, Raḥĕl weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”

Jeremiah 4:31

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labour, the distress as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Tsiyon! She bewails herself, she spreads out her hands, saying, “Woe to me, for my being faints because of killers!”

Ezekiel 2:10

and He spread it before me, and it was written on the inside and on the outside. And written on it were lamentations and mourning and woe.

Genesis 37:30

And he returned to his brothers and said, “The boy is gone! And I, where am I to go?”

Revelation 8:13

And I looked, and I heard an eagle flying in mid-heaven, crying with a loud voice, “Woe, woe, woe to those dwelling upon the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three messengers who are about to sound!”

Job 14:10

But man dies and is powerless, and man expires, and where is he?

Genesis 42:36

And Ya‛aqoḇ their father said to them, “You have bereaved me – Yosĕph is no more, and Shim‛on is no more, and you would take Binyamin! All this is against me.”

Matthew 2:17

Then was filled what was spoken by Yirmeyahu the prophet, saying,

Luke 8:52

And they were all weeping and mourning for her, and He said, “Do not weep, she is not dead, but sleeps.”