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.|


In Context

15 and was there until the death of Herod; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, |Out of Egypt I called my son.|

16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

17 Then that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying,

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.|

19 But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,

20 |Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who sought the young child's life 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:18A voice has been heard in Rama, weeping, and great lamentation: Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

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 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.