Jesus’ Lamentation over Jerusalem

37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem!(A) She 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[a] under her wings, yet you were not willing!(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 23:37 Or as a mother bird gathers her young

37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

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52 Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute?(A) They even killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers(B) you have now become.

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52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:

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15 who killed both the Lord Jesus(A) and the prophets and persecuted us;(B) they displease God and are hostile to everyone,

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15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

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