⁴¹ They said to Him, “He will put those despicable men to a miserable end, and rent out the vineyard to other tenants [of good character] who will pay him the proceeds at the proper seasons.”

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.^(A)

³⁸ Listen carefully: your house is being left to you desolate [completely abandoned by God and destitute of His protection]!^(A)

⁴¹ As He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it [and the spiritual ignorance of its people],

⁴² saying, “If [only] you had known on this day [of salvation], even you, the things which make for peace [and on which peace depends]! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.