Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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.
Lamentation
Bible References
Lamentation
Jeremiah 4:31
For I heard a cry like a woman in labor,
The anguish as of one giving birth to her first child,
The cry of the Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem), who gasps for breath,
Who stretches out her hands, saying,
“Woe is me [my judgment comes]! I faint [in fear] before the murderers.”
For I heard a cry like a woman in labor,
The anguish as of one giving birth to her first child,
The cry of the Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem), who gasps for breath,
Who stretches out her hands, saying,
“Woe is me [my judgment comes]! I faint [in fear] before the murderers.”
Jeremiah 9:17
Thus says the Lord of hosts,
“Consider and call for the mourning women to come;
Send for the wailing women to come.
Send for the wailing women to come.
Ezekiel 2:10
And He spread it before me, and it was written on the front and on the back, and written on it were [words of] lamentation (funeral songs) and mourning and woe.
Revelation 8:13
Then I looked, and I heard a solitary eagle flying in midheaven [for all to see], saying with a loud voice, “Woe, woe, woe [great wrath is coming] to those who dwell on the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpets which the three angels are about to sound [announcing ever greater judgments]!”
Would
Genesis 37:30
He rejoined his brothers and said, “The boy is not there; as for me, where shall I go [to hide from my father]?”
Genesis 42:36
Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me [by causing the loss] of my children. Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and you would take Benjamin [from me]. All these things are [working] against me.”
Job 14:10
“But [the brave, strong] man must die and lie face down;
Man breathes his last, and where is he?
“But [the brave, strong] man must die and lie face down;
Man breathes his last, and where is he?