Matthew 2:18

A Conservative Version

A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children. And she did not want to be comforted, because they are not.

Cross References

Jeremiah 31:15

Thus says LORD: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping. Rachel weeping for her children, she refused to be comforted for her children, because they are not.

Jeremiah 4:31

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, [saying], Woe is me now! For my soul faints

Ezekiel 2:10

And he spread it before me, and it was written inside and outside. And there were written in it lamentations and mourning and woe.

Genesis 37:30

and he returned to his brothers, and said, The child is not, and I, where shall I go?

Revelation 8:13

And I looked, and I heard one eagle flying in mid-heaven, saying in a great voice, Woe, woe, woe, to those who dwell on the earth from the remaining sounds of the trumpet of the three agents who are going to sound.

Job 14:10

But man dies, and is laid low. Yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

Genesis 42:36

And Jacob their father said to them, Ye have bereaved me of my sons. Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.

Matthew 2:17

Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, which says,

Luke 8:52

And all were weeping and bewailing her. But he said, Weep not. She did not die, but sleeps.