Mercy on Ephraim

¹⁵ Thus says the Lord:

The People Mourn in Judgment

¹⁷ Thus says the Lord of hosts:

Death of Rachel

¹⁶ Then they journeyed from Bethel. And when there was but a little distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel labored in childbirth, and she had hard labor. ¹⁷ Now it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, “Do not fear; ^(A)you will have this son also.” ¹⁸ And so it was, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name ^[a]Ben-Oni; but his father called him ^[b]Benjamin. ¹⁹ So ^(B)Rachel died and was buried on the way to ^(C)Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). ²⁰ And Jacob set a pillar on her grave, which is the pillar of Rachel’s grave ^(D)to this day.

¹⁰ Then He spread it before me; and there was writing on the inside and on the outside, and written on it were lamentations and mourning and woe.

³⁶ And Jacob their father said to them, “You have ^(A)bereaved me: Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take ^(B)Benjamin. All these things are against me.”

³⁰ And he returned to his brothers and said, “The lad ^(A)is no more; and I, where shall I go?”

¹³ And I looked, ^(A)and I heard an ^[a]angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, ^(B)“Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound!”