¹⁵ This is what the Lord says:

¹⁷ This is what the Lord Almighty says:

The Deaths of Rachel and Isaac^(A)

¹⁶ Then they moved on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath,^(B) Rachel^(C) began to give birth and had great difficulty. ¹⁷ And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife^(D) said to her, “Don’t despair, for you have another son.”^{(E) 18} As she breathed her last—for she was dying—she named her son Ben-Oni.^[a](F) But his father named him Benjamin.^[b](G)

¹⁹ So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath^(H) (that is, Bethlehem^(I)). ²⁰ Over her tomb Jacob set up a pillar, and to this day^(J) that pillar marks Rachel’s tomb.^(K)

¹⁰ which he unrolled before me. On both sides of it were written words of lament and mourning and woe.^(A)

³⁶ Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my children. Joseph is no more and Simeon is no more,^(A) and now you want to take Benjamin.^(B) Everything is against me!^(C)”

³⁰ He went back to his brothers and said, “The boy isn’t there! Where can I turn now?”^(A)

¹³ As I watched, I heard an eagle that was flying in midair^(A) call out in a loud voice: “Woe! Woe! Woe^(B) to the inhabitants of the earth,^(C) because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels!”