Matthew 2:18

Free Bible Version

“The sound of terrible weeping and mourning was heard in Rama, Rachel crying for her children. They are dead, and she can't be comforted.”

Cross References

Genesis 37:30

He returned to his brothers. “The boy's gone!” he moaned. “What am I going to do now?”

Genesis 42:36

Jacob their father accused them, “You have taken Joseph from me—he's gone! Simeon is gone too! Now you want to take Benjamin away! I'm the one who's suffering from all of this!”

Job 14:10

But human beings die, their strength dwindles away; they perish, and where are they then?

Jeremiah 31:15

This is what the Lord says: The sound of terrible weeping and mourning is heard in Ramah. It's Rachel crying for her children. They are dead, and she can't be comforted

Jeremiah 4:31

I hear the cries like a woman in labor, the agonizing moans of a woman giving birth to her first child. These are the cries of the Daughter of Zion gasping for air, holding out her hands, saying, “Please help me—I'm being murdered!”

Ezekiel 2:10

He spread it out in front of me, and there written on both the front and back were words of grief, mourning, and tragedy.

Matthew 2:17

In this way Jeremiah's prophecy was fulfilled:

Luke 8:52

All the people there were crying and mourning for her. “Don't cry,” Jesus told them. “She's not dead, she's just sleeping.”

Revelation 8:13

I saw and heard an eagle flying in mid-heaven, shouting loudly, “Disaster, disaster, disaster is coming to those who live on the earth because of what is going to happen when the three remaining angels blow their trumpets.”