Matthew 2:18

Good News Translation

“A sound is heard in Ramah, the sound of bitter weeping. Rachel is crying for her children; she refuses to be comforted, for they are dead.”

Cross References

Genesis 37:30

He returned to his brothers and said, “The boy is not there! What am I going to do?”

Genesis 42:36

Their father said to them, “Do you want to make me lose all my children? Joseph is gone; Simeon is gone; and now you want to take away Benjamin. I am the one who suffers!”

Job 14:10

But we die, and that is the end of us; we die, and where are we then?

Jeremiah 31:15

The Lord says, “A sound is heard in Ramah, the sound of bitter weeping. Rachel is crying for her children; they are gone, and she refuses to be comforted.

Jeremiah 4:31

I heard a cry, like a woman in labor, a scream like a woman bearing her first child. It was the cry of Jerusalem gasping for breath, stretching out her hand and saying, “I am doomed! They are coming to kill me!”

Ezekiel 2:10

The hand unrolled the scroll, and I saw that there was writing on both sides—cries of grief were written there, and wails and groans.

Matthew 2:17

In this way what the prophet Jeremiah had said came true:

Luke 8:52

Everyone there was crying and mourning for the child. Jesus said, “Don't cry; the child is not dead—she is only sleeping!”

Revelation 8:13

Then I looked, and I heard an eagle that was flying high in the air say in a loud voice, “O horror! horror! How horrible it will be for all who live on earth when the sound comes from the trumpets that the other three angels must blow!”