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14 I will give the priests plenty of good things.
My people will have everything that they need,
    because of all the good things that I give to them.’

15 The Lord says,

‘You can hear a sad noise in Ramah.
    Someone is weeping with a loud voice.
It is Rachel, and she is weeping for her children.
    Nobody can help her to stop weeping,
    because her children are dead.’[a]

16 The Lord says,

‘Stop crying!
    Do not weep any more!
I will help you because of what you have done.
    Your children will return from the land of their enemies.’

That is what the Lord says.

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Footnotes

  1. 31:15 Ramah was about 8 kilometres north of Jerusalem. It was on the road between Bethel and Bethlehem. The grave of Jacob's wife, Rachel, was there. She was the mother of Joseph. Joseph's two children were Ephraim and Manasseh. See Genesis 41:50-51. Also see Matthew 2:17-18.