Matthew 2:18

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`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.'

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  • Jer 31:15 : 15 Thus said Jehovah, A voice in Ramah is heard, wailing, weeping most bitter, Rachel is weeping for her sons, She hath refused to be comforted for her sons, because they are not.
  • Ezek 2:10 : 10 and He spreadeth it before me, and it is written in front and behind, and written on it `are' lamentations, and mourning, and wo!
  • Jer 4:31 : 31 For a voice as of a sick woman I have heard, Distress, as of one bringing forth a first-born, The voice of the daughter of Zion, She bewaileth herself, she spreadeth out her hands, `Wo to me now, for weary is my soul of slayers!'
  • Jer 9:17-21 : 17 Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Consider ye, and call for mourning women, And they come, And to the wise women send, and they come, 18 And they hasten, and lift up for us a wailing. And run down our eyes do tears, And from our eyelids do waters flow. 19 For -- a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: How have we been spoiled! We have been greatly ashamed, Because we have forsaken the land, Because they have cast down our tabernacles. 20 But hear, ye women, a word of Jehovah, And your ear receiveth a word of His mouth, And teach ye your daughters wailing, and each her neighbour lamentation. 21 For death hath come up into our windows, It hath come into our palaces, To cut off the suckling from without, Young men from the broad places.
  • Gen 35:16-20 : 16 And they journey from Bethel, and there is yet a kibrath of land before entering Ephratha, and Rachel beareth, and is sharply pained in her bearing; 17 and it cometh to pass, in her being sharply pained in her bearing, that the midwife saith to her, `Fear not, for this also `is' a son for thee.' 18 And it cometh to pass in the going out of her soul (for she died), that she calleth his name Ben-Oni; and his father called him Benjamin; 19 and Rachel dieth, and is buried in the way to Ephratha, which `is' Bethlehem, 20 and Jacob setteth up a standing pillar over her grave; which `is' the standing pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.
  • Gen 42:36 : 36 and Jacob their father saith unto them, `Me ye have bereaved; Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and Benjamin ye take -- against me have been all these.'
  • Job 14:10 : 10 And a man dieth, and becometh weak, And man expireth, and where `is' he?
  • Gen 37:30 : 30 and he returneth unto his brethren, and saith, `The lad is not, and I -- whither am I going?'
  • Gen 37:33-35 : 33 And he discerneth it, and saith, `My son's coat! an evil beast hath devoured him; torn -- torn is Joseph!' 34 And Jacob rendeth his raiment, and putteth sackcloth on his loins, and becometh a mourner for his son many days, 35 and all his sons and all his daughters rise to comfort him, and he refuseth to comfort himself, and saith, `For -- I go down mourning unto my son, to Sheol,' and his father weepeth for him.
  • Rev 8:13 : 13 And I saw, and I heard one messenger, flying in the mid-heaven, saying with a great voice, `Wo, wo, wo, to those dwelling upon the land from the rest of the voices of the trumpet of the three messengers who are about to sound.'

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  • Jer 31:15-16
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    90%

    15Thus said Jehovah, A voice in Ramah is heard, wailing, weeping most bitter, Rachel is weeping for her sons, She hath refused to be comforted for her sons, because they are not.

    16Thus said Jehovah: Withhold thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears, For there is a reward for thy work, An affirmation of Jehovah, And they have turned back from the land of the enemy.

  • Matt 2:13-17
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    81%

    13And on their having withdrawn, lo, a messenger of the Lord doth appear in a dream to Joseph, saying, `Having risen, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and be thou there till I may speak to thee, for Herod is about to seek the child to destroy him.'

    14And he, having risen, took the child and his mother by night, and withdrew to Egypt,

    15and he was there till the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled that was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, `Out of Egypt I did call My Son.'

    16Then Herod, having seen that he was deceived by the mages, was very wroth, and having sent forth, he slew all the male children in Beth-Lehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time that he inquired exactly from the mages.

    17Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying,

  • Luke 23:28-29
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    28and Jesus having turned unto them, said, `Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but for yourselves weep ye, and for your children;

    29for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;

  • Matt 2:19-21
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    73%

    19And Herod having died, lo, a messenger of the Lord in a dream doth appear to Joseph in Egypt,

    20saying, `Having risen, take the child and his mother, and be going to the land of Israel, for they have died -- those seeking the life of the child.'

    21And he, having risen, took the child and his mother, and came to the land of Israel,

  • Gen 35:18-19
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    72%

    18And it cometh to pass in the going out of her soul (for she died), that she calleth his name Ben-Oni; and his father called him Benjamin;

    19and Rachel dieth, and is buried in the way to Ephratha, which `is' Bethlehem,

  • Lam 1:16
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    16For these I am weeping, My eye, my eye, is running down with waters, For, far from me hath been a comforter, Refreshing my soul, My sons have been desolate, For mighty hath been an enemy.

  • Jer 48:3-5
    3 verses
    69%

    3A voice of a cry `is' from Horonaim, Spoiling and great destruction.

    4Destroyed hath been Moab, Caused a cry to be heard have her little ones.

    5For the ascent of Luhith with weeping, Go up doth weeping, For in the descent of Horonaim Adversaries a cry of desolation have heard.

  • Gen 48:7
    69%

    7`And I -- in my coming in from Padan-`Aram' Rachel hath died by me in the land of Canaan, in the way, while yet a kibrath of land to enter Ephrata, and I bury her there in the way of Ephrata, which `is' Bethlehem.'

  • Isa 51:18-19
    2 verses
    69%

    18There is not a leader to her Out of all the sons she hath borne, And there is none laying hold on her hand Out of all the sons she hath nourished.

    19These two are meeting thee, who is moved for thee? Spoiling and destruction -- Famine and sword, who -- I comfort thee?

  • Gen 30:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1And Rachel seeth that she hath not borne to Jacob, and Rachel is envious of her sister, and saith unto Jacob, `Give me sons, and if there is none -- I die.'

    2And Jacob's anger burneth against Rachel, and he saith, `Am I in stead of God who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?'

  • Zech 12:11
    69%

    11In that day, great is the mourning of Jerusalem, As the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon,

  • Hos 9:12
    69%

    12For though they nourish their sons, I have made them childless -- without man, Surely also, wo to them, when I turn aside from them.

  • Gen 35:16
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    16And they journey from Bethel, and there is yet a kibrath of land before entering Ephratha, and Rachel beareth, and is sharply pained in her bearing;

  • Gen 30:22
    69%

    22And God remembereth Rachel, and God hearkeneth unto her, and openeth her womb,

  • Luke 21:23
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    23`And wo to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days; for there shall be great distress on the land, and wrath on this people;

  • Mark 13:17
    68%

    17`And wo to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days;

  • Jer 9:18
    68%

    18And they hasten, and lift up for us a wailing. And run down our eyes do tears, And from our eyelids do waters flow.

  • Lam 2:11
    68%

    11Consumed by tears have been my eyes, Troubled have been my bowels, Poured out to the earth hath been my liver, For the breach of the daughter of my people; In infant and suckling being feeble, In the broad places of the city,

  • Jer 4:31
    68%

    31For a voice as of a sick woman I have heard, Distress, as of one bringing forth a first-born, The voice of the daughter of Zion, She bewaileth herself, she spreadeth out her hands, `Wo to me now, for weary is my soul of slayers!'

  • Jer 14:17
    68%

    17And thou hast said unto them this word: Tears come down mine eyes night and day, And they do not cease, For, `with' a great breach, Broken hath been the virgin daughter of my people, A very grievous stroke.

  • Matt 24:19
    68%

    19`And wo to those with child, and to those giving suck in those days;

  • Gen 29:11
    68%

    11And Jacob kisseth Rachel, and lifteth up his voice, and weepeth,

  • Jer 9:20
    68%

    20But hear, ye women, a word of Jehovah, And your ear receiveth a word of His mouth, And teach ye your daughters wailing, and each her neighbour lamentation.

  • Lam 1:2
    68%

    2She weepeth sore in the night, And her tear `is' on her cheeks, There is no comforter for her out of all her lovers, All her friends dealt treacherously by her, They have been to her for enemies.

  • Gen 37:35
    67%

    35and all his sons and all his daughters rise to comfort him, and he refuseth to comfort himself, and saith, `For -- I go down mourning unto my son, to Sheol,' and his father weepeth for him.

  • Matt 23:37
    67%

    37`Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that art killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto thee, how often did I will to gather thy children together, as a hen doth gather her own chickens under the wings, and ye did not will.

  • Luke 13:34
    67%

    34`Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that is killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto her, how often did I will to gather together thy children, as a hen her brood under the wings, and ye did not will.

  • Isa 22:4
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    4Therefore I said, `Look ye from me, I am bitter in my weeping, Haste not to comfort me, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.'

  • Jer 16:3
    67%

    3For thus said Jehovah, Of the sons and of the daughters who are born in this place, And of their mothers -- those bearing them, And of their fathers -- those begetting them in this land:

  • Rev 12:2
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    2and being with child she doth cry out, travailing and pained to bring forth.

  • Jer 14:2
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    2Mourned hath Judah, and her gates have languished, They have mourned to the earth, And the cry of Jerusalem hath gone up.

  • Jer 22:10
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    10Ye do not weep for the dead, nor bemoan for him, Weep ye sore for the traveller, For he doth not return again, Nor hath he seen the land of his birth.

  • Hos 2:4
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    4And her sons I do not pity, For sons of whoredoms `are' they,

  • Lam 2:18
    66%

    18Cried hath their heart unto the Lord; O wall of the daughter of Zion, Cause to go down as a stream tears daily and nightly, Give not rest to thyself, Let not the daughter of thine eye stand still.