15 “This is what Jehovah has said, ‘In Raʹmah+ a voice is being heard, lamentation and bitter weeping;+ Rachel+ weeping over her sons.+ She has refused to be comforted over her sons,+ because they are no more.’”+

16 This is what Jehovah has said: “‘Hold back your* voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears,+ for there exists a reward for your activity,’ is the utterance of Jehovah, ‘and they will certainly return from the land of the enemy.’+