Matthew 2:18

New Living Translation

“A cry was heard in Ramah— weeping and great mourning. Rachel weeps for her children, refusing to be comforted, for they are dead.”

Cross References

Genesis 37:30

Then he went back to his brothers and lamented, “The boy is gone! What will I do now?”

Genesis 42:36

Jacob exclaimed, “You are robbing me of my children! Joseph is gone! Simeon is gone! And now you want to take Benjamin, too. Everything is going against me!”

Job 14:10

“But when people die, their strength is gone. They breathe their last, and then where are they?

Jeremiah 31:15

This is what the Lord says: “A cry is heard in Ramah— deep anguish and bitter weeping. Rachel weeps for her children, refusing to be comforted— for her children are gone.”

Jeremiah 4:31

I hear a cry, like that of a woman in labor, the groans of a woman giving birth to her first child. It is beautiful Jerusalem gasping for breath and crying out, “Help! I’m being murdered!”

Ezekiel 2:10

which he unrolled. And I saw that both sides were covered with funeral songs, words of sorrow, and pronouncements of doom.

Matthew 2:17

Herod’s brutal action fulfilled what God had spoken through the prophet Jeremiah:

Luke 8:52

The house was filled with people weeping and wailing, but he said, “Stop the weeping! She isn’t dead; she’s only asleep.”

Revelation 8:13

Then I looked, and I heard a single eagle crying loudly as it flew through the air, “Terror, terror, terror to all who belong to this world because of what will happen when the last three angels blow their trumpets.”