Matthew 2:18

New International Version

“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

Cross References

Genesis 37:30

He went back to his brothers and said, “The boy isn’t there! Where can I turn now?”

Genesis 42:36

Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my children. Joseph is no more and Simeon is no more, and now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is against me!”

Job 14:10

But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and is no more.

Jeremiah 31:15

This is what the Lord says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

Jeremiah 4:31

I hear a cry as of a woman in labor, a groan as of one bearing her first child— the cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands and saying, “Alas! I am fainting; my life is given over to murderers.”

Ezekiel 2:10

which he unrolled before me. On both sides of it were written words of lament and mourning and woe.

Matthew 2:17

Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:

Luke 8:52

Meanwhile, all the people were wailing and mourning for her. “Stop wailing,” Jesus said. “She is not dead but asleep.”

Revelation 8:13

As I watched, I heard an eagle that was flying in midair call out in a loud voice: “Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels!”