In Rama was there (m) a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, (n) Rachel weeping [for] her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
(m) A voice of lamenting, weeping and howling.
(n) That is to say, All who live around Bethlehem: for Rachel, Jacob's wife who died in childbirth, was buried by the road that leads to this town, which is also called Ephratah, because of the fruitfulness of the soil, and the plentifulness of corn.