Matthew 2:18 ““A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping…”

Matthew 2:18

“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.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

World English Bible

“A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn’t be comforted, because they are no more.”

American Standard Version

A voice was heard in Ramah, Weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; And she would not be comforted, because they are not.

Geneva Bible 1599

In Rhama was a voyce heard, mourning, and weeping, and great howling: Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they were not.

Darby Translation

A voice has been heard in Rama, weeping, and great lamentation: Rachel weeping [for] her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

Young's Literal Translation

'A voice in Ramah was heard — lamentation and weeping and much mourning — Rachel weeping [for] her children, and she would not be comforted because they are not.'

Bible in Basic English

In Ramah there was a sound of weeping and great sorrow, Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be comforted for their loss.

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Cross references

“Rama”

Jeremiah 31:15

Jeremiah 31:15 · BSB

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.”

“Ramah”

Jeremiah 9:17–21 Jeremiah 4:31 Ezekiel 2:10 Revelation 8:13

Jeremiah 9:17–21 · BSB

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.

Jeremiah 4:31 · BSB

For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child— the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the mu…

Ezekiel 2:10 · BSB

which He unrolled before me. And written on the front and back of it were words of lamentation, mourning, and woe.

Revelation 8:13 · BSB

And as I observed, I heard an eagle flying overhead, calling in a loud voice, “Woe! Woe! Woe to those who dwell on the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the remaining three angels!”

“Rachel”

Genesis 35:16–20

Genesis 35:16–20 · BSB

Later, they set out from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.

“would”

Genesis 37:30 Genesis 37:33–35 Genesis 42:36 Job 14:10

Genesis 37:30 · BSB

returned to his brothers, and said, “The boy is gone! What am I going to do?”

Genesis 37:33–35 · BSB

His father recognized it and said, “It is my son’s robe! A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”

Genesis 42:36 · BSB

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

Job 14:10 · BSB

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

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

17Then what was spoken through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:

19After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt.

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