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36 I assure you and most solemnly say to you, [the judgment for] all these things [these vile and murderous deeds] will come on this generation.(A)

Lament over Jerusalem

37 [a]O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who murders the prophets and stones [to death] those [messengers] who are sent to her [by God]! How often I wanted to gather your children together [around Me], as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling.(B) 38 Listen carefully: your house is being left to you desolate [completely abandoned by God and destitute of His protection]!(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 23:37 The nation of Israel personified.

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