Thus sayeth the LORD, "The voice of heaviness, weeping and lamentation was heard on the hills; even of Rachel mourning for her children, and would not be comforted, because they were not."

Gibeon, Ramah, and Beeroth;

Then came all his sons and all his daughters to comfort him. And he would not be comforted, but said, "I will go down into the grave unto my son, mourning." And thus his father wept for him.

This is the manner how the LORD intreated Jeremiah, when Nebuzaradan the chief Captain had let him go free from Ramah, whither he had led him bound among all the prisoners, that were carried from Jerusalem and Judah unto Babylon.

And they said, "We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is yet with our father, and one no man knoweth where he is."

And Jacob their father said unto them, "Me have ye robbed of my children: Joseph is away, and Simeon is away, and ye will take Benjamin away. All these things fall upon me."

In the time of my trouble I sought the LORD, I held up mine hands to him in the night season, for my soul refused all other comfort.

My tabernacle is destroyed, and all my cords are broken. My children are gone from me, and can nowhere be found. Now have I none to spread out my tent, or to set up my hangings.

and then Enoch lived a godly life, and was no more seen - for God took him away.

And thus died Rachel, and was buried in the way to Ephrata which now is called Bethlehem.

for there was his house, and there he judged Israel, and there he built an altar unto the LORD.

Why dost thou not forgive my sin? Wherefore takest thou not away my wickedness? Behold, now must I sleep in the dust: And if thou seekest me tomorrow in the morning, I shall be gone."

But when I went by, lo, he was gone; I sought him, but his place could nowhere be found.

When I perceived that, I said, "Let me alone, and I will make lamentation. Take no labour for to comfort me, as touching the destruction of my people."

Our fathers, which now are gone, have sinned; and we must bear their wickedness.

and the hand opened it before me, and it was written within and without, full of careful mournings: alas, and woe.

Then Herod, perceiving that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, as many as were two years old and under according to the time which he had diligently searched out of the wise men.

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Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.

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and the hand opened it before me, and it was written within and without, full of careful mournings: alas, and woe.
Then Herod, perceiving that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, as many as were two years old and under according to the time which he had diligently searched out of the wise men.

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Then came all his sons and all his daughters to comfort him. And he would not be comforted, but said, "I will go down into the grave unto my son, mourning." And thus his father wept for him.
In the time of my trouble I sought the LORD, I held up mine hands to him in the night season, for my soul refused all other comfort.
When I perceived that, I said, "Let me alone, and I will make lamentation. Take no labour for to comfort me, as touching the destruction of my people."

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And they said, "We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is yet with our father, and one no man knoweth where he is."
Why dost thou not forgive my sin? Wherefore takest thou not away my wickedness? Behold, now must I sleep in the dust: And if thou seekest me tomorrow in the morning, I shall be gone."
But when I went by, lo, he was gone; I sought him, but his place could nowhere be found.
Our fathers, which now are gone, have sinned; and we must bear their wickedness.

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and went again unto his brethren, saying, "The lad is not yonder, and whither shall I go?"
And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt: so that there was never none like, nor shall be.
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