SinaiMatthew 2:18
American Standard Version
A voice was heard in Ramah, Weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; And she would not be comforted, because they are not.
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Matthew 2:18 in other translations
“A voice was heard in Ramah,
lamentation, weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children;
she wouldn’t be comforted,
because they are no more.”
Matthew 2:18 in context
- 16Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the Wise-men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the male children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had exactly learned of the Wise-men.
- 17Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying,
- 18A voice was heard in Ramah, Weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; And she would not be comforted, because they are not.
- 19But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,
- 20Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead that sought the young child’s life.