Jeremiah 31:15

New Century Version

This is what the Lord says: “A voice was heard in Ramah of painful crying and deep sadness: Rachel crying for her children. She refused to be comforted, because her children are dead!”

Cross References

Genesis 35:19

Rachel was buried on the road to Ephrath, a district of Bethlehem,

Genesis 37:35

All of his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he could not be comforted. He said, “I will be sad about my son until the day I die.” So Jacob cried for his son Joseph.

Genesis 42:13

And they said, “We are ten of twelve brothers, sons of the same father, and we live in the land of Canaan. Our youngest brother is there with our father right now, and our other brother is gone.”

Genesis 42:36

Their father Jacob said to them, “You are robbing me of all my children. Joseph is gone, Simeon is gone, and now you want to take Benjamin away, too. Everything is against me.”

Genesis 5:24

Enoch walked with God; one day Enoch could not be found, because God took him.

Job 7:21

Why don’t you pardon my wrongs and forgive my sins? I will soon lie down in the dust of death. Then you will search for me, but I will be no more.”

Psalm 37:36

But he died and was gone; I looked for him, but he couldn’t be found.

Psalm 77:2

I look for the Lord on the day of trouble. All night long I reach out my hands, but I cannot be comforted.

Isaiah 10:29

The army will go over the pass. The soldiers will sleep at Geba. The people of Ramah will be afraid, and the people at Gibeah of Saul will run away.

Isaiah 22:4

So I say, “Don’t look at me. Let me cry loudly. Don’t hurry to comfort me about the destruction of Jerusalem.”

Jeremiah 10:20

My tent is ruined, and all its ropes are broken. My children have gone away and left me. No one is left to put up my tent again or to set up a shelter for me.

Jeremiah 40:1

The Lord spoke his word to Jeremiah after Nebuzaradan, commander of the guards, had set Jeremiah free at the city of Ramah. He had found Jeremiah in Ramah bound in chains with all the captives from Jerusalem and Judah who were being taken away to Babylon.

Lamentations 5:7

Our ancestors sinned against you, but they are gone; now we suffer because of their sins.

Ezekiel 2:10

He opened the scroll in front of me. Funeral songs, sad writings, and words about troubles were written on the front and back.

Joshua 18:25

The tribe of Benjamin also received Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

Judges 4:5

Deborah would sit under the Palm Tree of Deborah, which was between the cities of Ramah and Bethel, in the mountains of Ephraim. And the people of Israel would come to her to settle their arguments.

1 Samuel 7:17

But Samuel always went back to Ramah, where his home was. There he judged Israel and built an altar to the Lord.