Jeremiah 31:15

God's Word

This is what the Lord says: A sound is heard in Ramah, the sound of crying in bitter grief. Rachel is crying for her children. She refuses to be comforted, because they are dead.

Cross References

Genesis 35:19

Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

Genesis 37:35

All his other sons and daughters came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “No, I will mourn for my son until I die.” This is how Joseph’s father cried over him.

Genesis 42:13

They answered him, “We were 12 brothers, sons of one man in Canaan. The youngest brother stayed with our father, and the other one is no longer with us.”

Genesis 42:36

Their father Jacob said to them, “You’re going to make me lose all my children! Joseph is no longer with us, Simeon is no longer with us, and now you want to take Benjamin. Everything’s against me!”

Genesis 5:24

Enoch walked with God; then he was gone because God took him.

Job 7:21

Why don’t you forgive my disobedience and take away my sin? Soon I’ll lie down in the dust. Then you will search for me, but I’ll be gone!”

Psalm 37:36

But he moved on, and now there is no trace of him. I searched for him, but he could not be found.

Psalm 77:2

On the day I was in trouble, I went to the Lord for help. At night I stretched out my hands in prayer without growing tired. Yet, my soul refused to be comforted.

Isaiah 10:29

They go through the mountain pass and lodge at Geba for the night. The people in Ramah tremble; the people in Saul’s Gibeah flee.

Isaiah 22:4

That is why I say, “Turn away from me so that I can cry bitterly. Don’t try to comfort me because of the destruction brought on my people.”

Jeremiah 10:20

My tent is destroyed, and all my ropes are broken. My children have left me and have disappeared. There’s no one to set up my tent again or put up my tent curtains.

Jeremiah 40:1

The Lord spoke his word to Jeremiah after Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, let him go at Ramah. Nebuzaradan found Jeremiah in chains along with the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being taken to Babylon.

Lamentations 5:7

Our ancestors sinned. Now they are gone, ⌞but⌟ we have to take the punishment for their wickedness.

Ezekiel 2:10

He spread the scroll in front of me. There was writing on the front and back. There were funeral songs, songs of mourning, and horrible things written on it.

Joshua 18:25

There were 14 other cities with their villages: Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

Judges 4:5

She used to sit under the Palm Tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the mountains of Ephraim. The people of Israel would come to her for legal decisions.

1 Samuel 7:17

Then he would return home to Ramah. There, too, he judged Israel. And in Ramah he built an altar to the Lord.