Matthew 2:18
“A voice is heard in Ramah,
What it says
A voice is heard in Ramah with weeping and great mourning as Rachel grieves for her children and refuses comfort because they are gone.
What it is doing
This verse gives the lament that answers Herod’s violence.
In context
16When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he had learned from the Magi. 17Then what was spoken through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: 18“A voice is heard in Ramah,