Matthew 2:18

English Standard Version 2016

“A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be comforted, because they are no more.”

Cross References

Jeremiah 31:15

Thus says the Lord: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”

Jeremiah 4:31

For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor, anguish as of one giving birth to her first child, the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands, “Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers.”

Ezekiel 2:10

And he spread it before me. And it had writing on the front and on the back, and there were written on it words of lamentation and mourning and woe.

Genesis 37:30

and returned to his brothers and said, “The boy is gone, and I, where shall I go?”

Revelation 8:13

Then I looked, and I heard an eagle crying with a loud voice as it flew directly overhead, “Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, at the blasts of the other trumpets that the three angels are about to blow!”

Job 14:10

But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?

Genesis 42:36

And Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin. All this has come against me.”

Matthew 2:17

Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah:

Luke 8:52

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