Matthew 2:18

The Scriptures 2009

“A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and weeping, and great mourning – Raḥĕl weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted, because they were no more.”

Cross References

Genesis 37:30

And he returned to his brothers and said, “The boy is gone! And I, where am I to go?”

Genesis 42:36

And Ya‛aqoḇ their father said to them, “You have bereaved me – Yosĕph is no more, and Shim‛on is no more, and you would take Binyamin! All this is against me.”

Job 14:10

But man dies and is powerless, and man expires, and where is he?

Jeremiah 31:15

Thus said יהוה, “A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing, bitter weeping, Raḥĕl weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”

Jeremiah 4:31

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labour, the distress as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Tsiyon! She bewails herself, she spreads out her hands, saying, “Woe to me, for my being faints because of killers!”

Ezekiel 2:10

and He spread it before me, and it was written on the inside and on the outside. And written on it were lamentations and mourning and woe.

Matthew 2:17

Then was filled what was spoken by Yirmeyahu the prophet, saying,

Luke 8:52

And they were all weeping and mourning for her, and He said, “Do not weep, she is not dead, but sleeps.”

Revelation 8:13

And I looked, and I heard an eagle flying in mid-heaven, crying with a loud voice, “Woe, woe, woe to those dwelling upon the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three messengers who are about to sound!”