35 So all the righteous blood shed on the earth will be charged to you,[a] from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah,(A) son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.(B) 36 Truly I tell you, all these things will come on this generation.(C)

Jesus’s Lamenting over Jerusalem

37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem,(D) who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks[b] under her wings, but you were not willing!(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 23:35 Lit will come on you
  2. 23:37 Or as a mother bird gathers her young

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