The LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 15. High. Lit. “high places.” Hebrew Rama. Bible.—There was a city of this name near Bethlehem, where Rachel was buried. Benjamin was her son, and was conducted by this road to Babylon. Chal. Grot. Tirinus.—Ephraim and Manasses were also her grandchildren, and she may bewail their captivity by personification. S. Mat. (2:18) shews that this prediction was more fully accomplished when the innocents were slain. The same passage may allude to different events. Calmet.—All the people of God, both of the ten and of the two tribes, bewailed their captivity, and the mothers lamented for those slain near Bethlehem. Worthington.