Weeping and Great Mourning

(Jeremiah 31:1–25)

When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, vvv 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. 17 Then what was spoken through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:

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“A voice is heard in Ramah,

lamentation and[fn] weeping and great mourning,

Rachel weeping [for] her children

and refusing to be comforted,

because they are no more.”[fn]

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