“A voice was heard in Ramah,
weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children;
and she refused to be consoled,
because they are no more.”
Hope was born before the massacre;
Jesus Christ was swaddled in a manger.
Why Rachel? She died in childbirth.
She cried out in her sadness.
Rachel cried out, “Ben Oni,”
son of my mourning.
Jacob renamed him, Benjamin.
Rachel cried out.
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