36 Truly I tell you, all this will come on this generation.(A)

37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you,(B) how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings,(C) and you were not willing. 38 Look, your house is left to you desolate.(D) 39 For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’[a](E)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 23:39 Psalm 118:26

36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

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!

38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

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