Matthew 2:18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be consoled, because they are no more.”

Cross References

Genesis 37:30

He returned to his brothers and said, “The boy is gone, and I, where can I turn?”

Genesis 42:36

And their father Jacob said to them, “I am the one you have bereaved of children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin. All this has happened to me!”

Job 14:10

But mortals die and are laid low; humans expire, and where are they?

Jeremiah 31:15

Thus says the Lord: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.

Jeremiah 4:31

For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor, anguish as of one bringing forth her first child, the cry of daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands, “Woe is me! I am fainting before killers!”

Ezekiel 2:10

He spread it before me; it had writing on the front and on the back, and written on it were words of lamentation and mourning and woe.

Matthew 2:17

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

Luke 8:52

Everyone was weeping and grieving for her, but he said, “Do not cry, for she is not dead but sleeping.”

Revelation 8:13

Then I looked, and I heard an eagle crying with a loud voice as it flew in midheaven, “Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth, at the blasts of the other trumpets that the three angels are about to blow!”