Matthew 2:18

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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

Would

Genesis 37:30

Genesis 42:36

Job 14:10

Bible References

Lamentation

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labor, the anguish as one bearing her first child, the voice of Zion's daughter, gasping and spreading her hands, saying, Woe to me now! For my soul faints because of murderers.

So says Jehovah of Hosts, Think carefully, and call for the wailers, that they may come. And send for the wise women, that they may come;

And He spread it before me; and it was written on the face and the back. And written on it were weepings, and mourning, and woe.

And I saw and I heard one angel flying in mid-heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, from the rest of the voices of the trumpet of the three angels being about to sound!

Would

And he returned to his brothers and said, The child, he is not. And I, where shall I go?

And Jacob their father said to them, You have bereaved me. Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and you will take Benjamin. All these things are against me.

But man dies and is cut off; and man expires, and where is he?