⁴¹ As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it^(A)

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. ³⁵ Look, your house is left to you desolate.^(B) I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’^[a]”^(C)

³⁵ Jesus wept.^(A)

² I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. ³ For I could wish that I myself^(A) were cursed^(B) and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people,^(C) those of my own race,^(D)