...dttut.2.i8. ]5 TfThus saith the LORD; dA voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel shall they come and sing in the great congregation and most eminent assemblies ; and shall meet cheerfully...

...THEIR OFFSPRING. JER. xxxi. 15. A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and litter weeping : Rahel, weeping for her children, refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.] From Le Bruyn's Voyage in Syria (p. 256) we learn, that " the women go in companies, on certain days,...

...be no more death." Tears arc wont to be poured out on occasions of mortality. Thus: Jer. xxxi. 15, " A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter...comforted for her children, Because they were not." Jer. xxii. 10, Tears are sometimes shed for national calamities. Thus: Lam. i. 2, " She weepeth sore...

...no more death." Tears are wont to be poured out on occasions of mortality. Thus : Jer. xxxi. 15, " A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter...comforted for her children, Because they were not." Jer. xxii. 1 0, Tears are sometimes shed for national calamities. Thus : Lam. i. 2, " She weepeth sore...

...which the prophet wrote, in captivity at Babylon: " Thus saith Jehovah, A voice was heard in Rama, lamentation and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for...comforted for her children, because they were not." Here there is no prophecy, but the mention of a fact. Why did Rachel weep for her children ? Because...

...may overcome all your spiritual enemies, and finally be made partakers with them of life everlasting. Rachel weeping for her children, refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not. Jer. xxxi. 15. Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and...

...His right theg regain the rcdeimcd Inheritance : themselves being the ransomed Peuple. " Thus suith the Lord ; A voice was heard in Ramah, Lamentation and bitter weeping ; Kachel, weeping for her children, Refused to be comforted for her children, Because they were not....

...historian's page." Shall we, then, join with the mother of Ephraim (ie, the Israelites) in the " voice that was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping;...comforted for her children, because they were not?" But let not Rachel, or, rather, the church of God, whom she personifies, despair. "Thus saith the Lord,...

...294 4. Jer. ixxi. 15. PD3D Sm Dnnon %D3 \ :UO*K o rvn-*?? orunV ruKo rvj A voice was heard in Ramati, lamentation, and bitter weeping ; Rachel weeping for...comforted for her children, because they were not 5. PsaL xxii. 6. Ixix. 9, 10. Isa- 111. lui. Zecb. zi. 12,13. 6. Isa. xl. 3-5. n3i;a vis" nrv yn uo...

...sadness, that Ramah would present, Jeremiah had prophetically described, ' A voice was heard in Raroah, lamentation, and bitter weeping ; Rachel weeping for...to be comforted for her children, because they were not.'IT The treatment of captives in the East was often very cruel. Stripped and bound, the hands behind...