The word that came from the Lord to Jeremiah, after that Nabuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go out of Ramah, when he had taken him in chains in the midst of the captivity of Judah, [even] those who were carried to Babylon.

Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

And his return was [always] to Ramah, because his house was there; and there he judged Israel, and built there an altar to the Lord.

"A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted, because they are no more."

[ 37:34] And all his sons and his daughters gathered themselves together, and came to comfort him; but he would not be comforted, saying, I will go down to my son mourning to Hades; and his father wept for him.

In the day of my affliction I earnestly sought the Lord; [even] with my hands by night before Him, and I was not deceived; my soul refused to be comforted.

Therefore I said, Let me alone, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the breach of the daughter of my people.

And they said, We your servants are twelve brothers, in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is with our father today, but the other one is not.

And their father Jacob said to them, You have bereaved me. Joseph is no [more], Simeon is no [more], and will you take Benjamin, [as well]? All these things have come against me!

Why have You not forgotten my iniquity, and purged my sin? But now I shall depart to the earth, and in the morning I am no more.

Yet I passed by, and lo! He was not; and I sought him, but his place was not found.

Our fathers sinned, and are not: we have borne their iniquities.