# A voice is heard in Ramah

"I hear a voice in Ramah"

# It is Rachel weeping for her children

Rachel was the wife of Jacob/Israel and was the mother of the tribes of Joseph and Benjamin. Her name refers to the women of Israel who are crying because the Babylonians have killed their children or taken them away.

# She refuses to be comforted over them, for they live no longer

"She will not let anyone comfort her, for her children are dead"