Jeremiah 31:15

New English Translation

The Lord says, “A sound is heard in Ramah, a sound of crying in bitter grief. It is the sound of Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because her children are gone.”

Cross References

Genesis 35:19

So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

Genesis 37:35

All his sons and daughters stood by him to console him, but he refused to be consoled. “No,” he said, “I will go to the grave mourning my son.” So Joseph’s father wept for him.

Genesis 42:13

They replied, “Your servants are from a family of twelve brothers. We are the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is with our father at this time, and one is no longer alive.”

Genesis 42:36

Their father Jacob said to them, “You are making me childless! Joseph is gone. Simeon is gone. And now you want to take Benjamin! Everything is against me.”

Genesis 5:24

Enoch walked with God, and then he disappeared because God took him away.

Job 7:21

And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”

Psalm 37:36

But then one passes by, and suddenly they have disappeared! I looked for them, but they could not be found.

Psalm 77:2

In my time of trouble I sought the Lord. I kept my hand raised in prayer throughout the night. I refused to be comforted.

Isaiah 10:29

They went through the pass, spent the night at Geba. Ramah trembled, Gibeah of Saul ran away.

Isaiah 22:4

So I say: “Don’t look at me! I am weeping bitterly. Don’t try to console me concerning the destruction of my defenseless people.”

Jeremiah 10:20

But our tents have been destroyed. The ropes that held them in place have been ripped apart. Our children are gone and are not coming back. There is no survivor to put our tents back up, no one left to hang their tent curtains in place.

Jeremiah 40:1

The Lord spoke to Jeremiah after Nebuzaradan the captain of the royal guard had set him free at Ramah. He had taken him there in chains along with all the people from Jerusalem and Judah who were being carried off to exile to Babylon.

Lamentations 5:7

Our forefathers sinned and are dead, but we suffer their punishment.

Ezekiel 2:10

He unrolled it before me, and it had writing on the front and back; written on it were laments, mourning, and woe.

Joshua 18:25

Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

Judges 4:5

She would sit under the Date Palm Tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the Ephraimite hill country. The Israelites would come up to her to have their disputes settled.

1 Samuel 7:17

Then he would return to Ramah, because his home was there. He also judged Israel there and built an altar to the Lord there.