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)

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.

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