The Sound of Weeping

There was no media to report the tragedy; no radio or newspapers or internet, no journalists running to the scene. Jeremiah predicted it, and Matthew wrote about it. Jesus birth caused it – a King, Herod, so desperate to wipe out any rival for his power that he caused a huge slaughter of innocent little boys. Little girls were considered no threat because they never held power. They were punished through the losses.

We hear their tears through the gospel account:

A sound was heard in Ramah,
Weeping and much lament
Rachel weeping for her children,
Rachel refusing all solace,
Her children gone,
Dead and buried.


The whole world can see and hear the weeping today, and the bottle God holds collecting the tears is enormous right now, but the pain is too deep to describe.

The sound is heard in Russia, in Sudan, in the Middle East, in small towns in North American, in every nation of this earth,
Weeping and much lament, agonized cries
A mother weeping for her children
There is no place of solace, she cannot find it, her pain too deep to search for it.
Her children are gone, no one can find them, no one knows where they are
Dead and buried.

Oh God You saw it all when Your Son came to this world, You see it now. Comfort Your children, comfort Your children. "Comfort, oh comfort my people...speak softly and tenderly"