Verse 15

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

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 40:1 : 1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon.
  • Jer 10:20 : 20 My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth from me, and they are no more: there is none to spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
  • Gen 37:35 : 35 All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning." His father wept for him.
  • Gen 42:13 : 13 They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more."
  • Josh 18:25 : 25 Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,
  • Gen 42:36 : 36 Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me."
  • Gen 35:19 : 19 Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).
  • Ps 77:2 : 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.
  • Isa 22:4 : 4 Therefore I said, "Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don't labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • Lam 5:7 : 7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.
  • Ezek 2:10 : 10 He spread it before me: and it was written within and without; and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
  • Matt 2:16-18 : 16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men. 17 Then that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying, 18 "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."
  • Gen 5:24 : 24 Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
  • 1 Sam 7:17 : 17 His return was to Ramah, for there was his house; and there he judged Israel: and he built there an altar to Yahweh.
  • Job 7:21 : 21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."
  • Ps 37:36 : 36 But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.