Verse 18

`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.'

Referenced Verses

• 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.'