Matthew 2:18

Modern English Version

“In Ramah a voice was heard, grieving and weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be comforted, because they are no more.”

Cross References

Genesis 37:30

He returned to his brothers, and said, “The boy is not there, and I, where can I go?”

Genesis 42:36

Then Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you will take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”

Job 14:10

But man dies and wastes away; yes, man gives up his breath, and where is he?

Jeremiah 31:15

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

Jeremiah 4:31

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labor, and the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewails herself, that spreads her hands, saying, “Ah, woe is me, for my soul is wearied because of murderers.”

Ezekiel 2:10

And He spread it before me. And there was writing on the inside and on the outside, and written on it were words of lamentation and mourning and woe.

Matthew 2:17

Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet:

Luke 8:52

All wept and mourned for her. But He said, “Do not weep. She is not dead but sleeping.”

Revelation 8:13

Then I watched, and I heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, “Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the other trumpet blasts of the three angels, who are yet to sound!”