Matthew 2:18

Holman Christian Standard Bible

A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; and she refused to be consoled, because they were no more.

Cross References

Genesis 37:30

He went back to his brothers and said, “The boy is gone! What am I going to do? ”

Genesis 42:36

Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything happens to me! ”

Job 14:10

But a man dies and fades away; he breathes his last — where is he?

Jeremiah 31:15

This is what the Lord says: A voice was heard in Ramah, a lament with bitter weeping — Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children because they are no more.

Jeremiah 4:31

I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child. The cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands: Woe is me, for my life is weary because of the murderers!

Ezekiel 2:10

When He unrolled it before me, it was written on the front and back; words of lamentation, mourning, and woe were written on it.

Matthew 2:17

Then what was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:

Luke 8:52

Everyone was crying and mourning for her. But He said, “Stop crying, for she is not dead but asleep.”

Revelation 8:13

I looked again and heard an eagle flying high overhead, crying out in a loud voice, “Woe! Woe! Woe to those who live on the earth, because of the remaining trumpet blasts that the three angels are about to sound! ”