Matthew 2:18

New American Bible - revised edition

“A voice was heard in Ramah, sobbing and loud lamentation; Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be consoled, since they were no more.” The Return from Egypt.

Cross References

Genesis 37:30

and returning to his brothers, he exclaimed: “The boy is gone! And I—where can I turn?”

Genesis 42:36

Their father Jacob said to them: “Must you make me childless? Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin away! All these things have happened to me!”

Job 14:10

But when a man dies, all vigor leaves him; when a mortal expires, where then is he?

Jeremiah 31:15

Thus says the Lord: In Ramah is heard the sound of sobbing, bitter weeping! Rachel mourns for her children, she refuses to be consoled for her children—they are no more!

Jeremiah 4:31

Yes, I hear the cry, like that of a woman in labor, like the anguish of a mother bearing her first child— The cry of daughter Zion gasping, as she stretches out her hands: “Ah, woe is me! I sink exhausted before my killers!”

Ezekiel 2:10

He unrolled it before me; it was covered with writing front and back. Written on it was: Lamentation, wailing, woe!

Matthew 2:17

Then was fulfilled what had been said through Jeremiah the prophet:

Luke 8:52

All were weeping and mourning for her, when he said, “Do not weep any longer, for she is not dead, but sleeping.”

Revelation 8:13

Then I looked again and heard an eagle flying high overhead cry out in a loud voice, “Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth from the rest of the trumpet blasts that the three angels are about to blow!”