Jeremiah 31:15

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

In Ramah a voice is heard, crying and weeping loudly. Rachel mourns for her children and refuses to be comforted, because they are dead.

Cross References

Genesis 35:19

Rachel was buried beside the road to Ephrath, which is also called Bethlehem.

Genesis 37:35

All Jacob's children came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said, “I will go to my grave, mourning for my son.” So Jacob kept on grieving.

Genesis 42:13

But they explained, “Sir, we come from a family of twelve brothers. The youngest is still with our father in Canaan, and one of our brothers is dead.”

Genesis 42:36

who said, “You have already taken my sons Joseph and Simeon from me. And now you want to take away Benjamin! Everything is against me.”

Job 7:21

Why do you refuse to forgive? Soon you won't find me, because I'll be dead.

Psalm 37:36

Suddenly they disappeared! I looked, but they were gone and no longer there.

Psalm 77:2

In days filled with trouble, I search for you. And at night I tirelessly lift my hands in prayer, refusing comfort.

Isaiah 10:29

before crossing the valley and spending the night at Geba. The people of Ramah are terrified; everyone in Gibeah, the home town of Saul, has run away.

Isaiah 22:4

Then I said, “Leave me alone! Let me cry bitter tears. My people have been destroyed, so don't try to comfort me.”

Jeremiah 10:20

Our homes are destroyed; our children are dead. No one is left to help us find shelter.”

Jeremiah 40:1

I was led away in chains along with the people of Judah and Jerusalem who were being taken to Babylonia. Nebuzaradan was the officer in charge of the guard, and when we stopped at Ramah, the LORD made him set me free.

Lamentations 5:7

Our ancestors sinned, but they are dead, and we are left to pay for their sins.

Ezekiel 2:10

The hand opened the scroll, and both sides of it were filled with words of sadness, mourning, and grief.

Joshua 18:25

In the other region there were the following fourteen towns with their surrounding villages: Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth, Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah, Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah, Zelah, Haeleph, Gibeah, Kiriath-Jearim, and Jerusalem, which is also called Jebusite Town. These regions are the tribal lands of Benjamin.

Judges 4:5

She would sit under Deborah's Palm Tree between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, where Israelites would come and ask her to settle their legal cases.

1 Samuel 7:17

Then he would go back to his home in Ramah and do the same thing there. He also had an altar built for the LORD at Ramah.