Matthew 23:37-39
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Lament over Jerusalem
37 (A)“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that (B)kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have (C)gathered (D)your children together (E)as a hen gathers her brood (F)under her wings, and (G)you were not willing! 38 See, (H)your house is left to you desolate. 39 For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, (I)‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’”
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Acts 7:52
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52 (A)Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of (B)the Righteous One, (C)whom you have now betrayed and murdered,
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Deuteronomy 32:11-12
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11 (A)Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,
that flutters over its young,
spreading out its wings, catching them,
bearing them on its pinions,
12 (B)the Lord alone guided him,
(C)no foreign god was with him.
Luke 19:41-42
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Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem
41 (A)And when he drew near and saw the city, (B)he wept over it, 42 saying, (C)“Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now (D)they are hidden from your eyes.
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Isaiah 30:15
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15 For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel,
“In (A)returning[a] and (B)rest you shall be saved;
in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.”
But you were unwilling,
Footnotes
- Isaiah 30:15 Or repentance
Luke 23:28
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28 But turning to them Jesus said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
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Luke 19:44
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44 (A)and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And (B)they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know (C)the time of your (D)visitation.”
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Zechariah 1:4
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4 (A)Do not be like your fathers, (B)to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, (C)Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But (D)they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.
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Jeremiah 7:23-24
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23 But this command I gave them: (A)‘Obey my voice, and (B)I will be your God, and you shall be my people. (C)And walk in all the way that I command you, (D)that it may be well with you.’ 24 (E)But they did not obey or incline their ear, (F)but walked in their own counsels and (G)the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and (H)went backward and not forward.
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2 Chronicles 36:15-16
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15 The Lord, the God of their fathers, (A)sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. 16 (B)But they kept mocking the messengers of God, (C)despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, (D)until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, until there was no remedy.
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Ruth 2:12
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12 (A)The Lord repay you for what you have done, and a full reward be given you by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge!”
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Matthew 22:6
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6 while the rest seized his servants, (A)treated them shamefully, and (B)killed them.
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Matthew 22:3
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3 and (A)sent his servants[a] to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come.
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- Matthew 22:3 Or bondservants; also verses 4, 6, 8, 10
Matthew 21:35-36
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35 (A)And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and (B)stoned another. 36 (C)Again he sent other servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them.
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Hosea 11:7
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7 My people are bent (A)on turning away from me,
and though (B)they call out to the Most High,
he shall not raise them up at all.
Hosea 11:2
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2 (A)The more they were called,
the more they went away;
(B)they kept sacrificing to the Baals
and burning offerings to idols.
Lamentations 1:16
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16 “For these things (A)I weep;
my eyes flow with tears;
for (B)a comforter is far from me,
one to (C)revive my spirit;
my children are desolate,
for the enemy has prevailed.”
Jeremiah 44:4-6
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4 (A)Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, ‘Oh, do not do this abomination that I hate!’ 5 (B)But they did not listen (C)or incline their ear, to turn from their evil and make no offerings to other gods. 6 (D)Therefore my wrath and my anger were poured out and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, (E)and they became a waste and a desolation, as at this day.
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Jeremiah 35:14
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14 The command that Jonadab the son of Rechab gave to his sons, to drink no wine, has been kept, and they drink none to this day, for they have obeyed their father's command. I have spoken to you (A)persistently, but you have not listened to me.
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Jeremiah 26:23
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23 and they took Uriah from Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiakim, (A)who struck him down with the sword and dumped his dead body into the burial place of the common people.
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Jeremiah 6:16
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16 Thus says the Lord:
“Stand by the roads, and look,
and ask for (A)the ancient paths,
where the good way is; and walk in it,
(B)and find rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
Jeremiah 2:30
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30 In vain have I (A)struck your children;
they took no correction;
(B)your own sword devoured your prophets
like a ravening lion.
Isaiah 50:2
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2 (A)Why, when I came, was there no man;
why, when I called, was there no one to answer?
(B)Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem?
Or have I no power to deliver?
(C)Behold, by my rebuke (D)I dry up the sea,
(E)I make the rivers a desert;
(F)their fish stink for lack of water
and die of thirst.
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