18A voice has been heard in Rama, weeping, and great lamentation: Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.


In Context

15 And he was there until the death of Herod, that that might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.

16 Then Herod, seeing that he had been mocked by the magi, was greatly enraged; and sent and slew all the boys which were in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time which he had accurately inquired from the magi.

17 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremias the prophet, saying,

18 A voice has been heard in Rama, weeping, and great lamentation: Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

19 But Herod having died, behold, an angel of the Lord appears in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,

20 Arise, take to thee the little child and its mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they who sought the life of the little child are dead.

Matthew 2:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:18In 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:18"A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:18A voice in Rama was heard, lamentation and great mourning; Rachel bewailing her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:18A voice was heard in Ramah, Weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; And she would not be comforted, because they are not.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:18A voice was heard in Ramah, Weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; And she would not be comforted, because they are not.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:18In 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:18|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.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:18A voice in Ramah was heard — lamentation and weeping and much mourning — Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be comforted because they are not.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:18In 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.