Matthew 23:37-39
Christian Standard Bible
Jesus’s Lamenting over Jerusalem
37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem,(A) 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 chicks[a] under her wings, but you were not willing!(B) 38 See, 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’!”[b](D)
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Matthew 23:37-39
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Jesus’ Lamentation over Jerusalem
37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem!(A) She 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 chicks[a] under her wings, yet you were not willing!(B) 38 See, your house is left to you desolate.(C) 39 For I tell you, you will never see Me again until you say, ‘He who comes in the name of the Lord is the blessed One’!”(D)[b]
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- Matthew 23:37 Or as a mother bird gathers her young
- Matthew 23:39 Ps 118:26
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