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.

Bible References

Lamentation

Jeremiah 4:31
For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor,
The anguish as of one giving birth to her first child,
The cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath,
Stretching out her hands, saying,
“Ah, woe is me, for I faint before murderers.”
Jeremiah 9:17
Thus says the Lord of hosts,
“Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come;
And send for the wailing women, that they may come!
Ezekiel 2:10
When He spread it out before me, it was written on the front and back, and written on it were lamentations, mourning and woe.
Revelation 8:13
Then I looked, and I heard an eagle flying in midheaven, saying with a loud voice, “Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound!”

Would

Genesis 37:30
He returned to his brothers and said, “The boy is not there; as for me, where am I to go?”
Genesis 42:36
Their father Jacob said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and you would take Benjamin; all these things are against me.”
Job 14:10
“But man dies and lies prostrate.
Man expires, and where is he?

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