35 All his sons and daughters came to comfort him,(A) but he refused to be comforted.(B) “No,” he said, “I will continue to mourn until I join my son(C) in the grave.(D)” So his father wept for him.

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When I was in distress,(A) I sought the Lord;
    at night(B) I stretched out untiring hands,(C)
    and I would not be comforted.(D)

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20 My tent(A) is destroyed;
    all its ropes are snapped.
My children are gone from me and are no more;(B)
    no one is left now to pitch my tent
    or to set up my shelter.

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17 Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:(A)

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18 “A voice is heard in Ramah,
    weeping and great mourning,
Rachel(A) weeping for her children
    and refusing to be comforted,
    because they are no more.”[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 2:18 Jer. 31:15

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