Matthew 2:18

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Genesis 37:30

and returned to his brothers, and said, “The lad is gone; and I, where shall I go?”

Genesis 42:36

And Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin; all this has come upon me.”

Job 14:10

But man dies, and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?

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 not.”

Jeremiah 4:31

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

Ezekiel 2:10

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

Matthew 2:17

Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah:

Luke 8:52

And all were weeping and bewailing her; but he said, “Do not weep; 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 those who dwell on the earth, at the blasts of the other trumpets which the three angels are about to blow!”