18 In 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.

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18 “A voice was heard in Ramah,
    weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children,
    and she did not want to be comforted,
because they exist no longer[a].”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 2:18 Literally “they are not”
  2. Matthew 2:18 A quotation from Jer 31:15