Jesus Laments over Jerusalem(A)

34 (B)“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one 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 brood under her wings, but you were not willing!

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34 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings,(A) and you were not willing.

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Jesus Laments over Jerusalem(A)

37 (B)“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets (C)and stones those who are sent to her! How often (D)I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks (E)under her wings, but you were not willing! 38 See! Your house is left to you desolate; 39 for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, (F)‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’

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37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you,(A) how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings,(B) and you were not willing. 38 Look, your house is left to you desolate.(C) 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](D)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 23:39 Psalm 118:26

52 (A)Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of (B)the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers,

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52 Was there ever a prophet your ancestors did not persecute?(A) They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him(B)

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Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem

41 Now as He drew near, He saw the city and (A)wept over it, 42 saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this (B)your day, the things that (C)make for your (D)peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

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41 As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it(A) 42 and said, “If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes.

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11 (A)As an eagle stirs up its nest,
Hovers over its young,
Spreading out its wings, taking them up,
Carrying them on its wings,
12 So the Lord alone led him,
And there was no foreign god with him.

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11 like an eagle that stirs up its nest
    and hovers over its young,(A)
that spreads its wings to catch them
    and carries them aloft.(B)
12 The Lord alone led(C) him;(D)
    no foreign god was with him.(E)

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28 But Jesus, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

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28 Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children.(A)

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44 (A)and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and (B)they will not leave in you one stone upon another, (C)because you did not know the time of your visitation.”

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44 They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls.(A) They will not leave one stone on another,(B) because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming(C) to you.”

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23 But this is what I commanded them, saying, (A)‘Obey My voice, and (B)I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.’ 24 (C)Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but (D)followed[a] the counsels and the [b]dictates of their evil hearts, and (E)went[c] backward and not forward.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 7:24 walked in
  2. Jeremiah 7:24 stubbornness or imagination
  3. Jeremiah 7:24 Lit. they were

23 but I gave them this command:(A) Obey(B) me, and I will be your God and you will be my people.(C) Walk in obedience to all(D) I command you, that it may go well(E) with you. 24 But they did not listen(F) or pay attention;(G) instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts.(H) They went backward(I) and not forward.

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15 For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel:

(A)“In returning and rest you shall be saved;
In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.”
(B)But you would not,

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15 This is what the Sovereign(A) Lord, the Holy One(B) of Israel, says:

“In repentance and rest(C) is your salvation,
    in quietness and trust(D) is your strength,
    but you would have none of it.(E)

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12 (A)The Lord repay your work, and a full reward be given you by the Lord God of Israel, (B)under whose wings you have come for refuge.”

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12 May the Lord repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the Lord,(A) the God of Israel,(B) under whose wings(C) you have come to take refuge.(D)

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And their dead bodies will lie in the street of (A)the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, (B)where also [a]our Lord was crucified.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 11:8 NU, M their

Their bodies will lie in the public square of the great city(A)—which is figuratively called Sodom(B) and Egypt—where also their Lord was crucified.(C)

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25 for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children— 26 but the (A)Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all.

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25 Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem that is above(A) is free, and she is our mother.

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Saul Persecutes the Church

Now Saul was consenting to his death.

At that time a great persecution arose against the church which was at Jerusalem; and (A)they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

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And Saul(A) approved of their killing him.

The Church Persecuted and Scattered

On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered(B) throughout Judea and Samaria.(C)

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