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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Footnotes

  1. 23:37 Or as a mother bird gathers her young
  2. 23:39 Ps 118:26

The Lament over Jerusalem

37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How many times I wanted to gather your children together the way[a] a hen gathers her young together under her[b] wings, and you were not willing! 38 Behold, your house has been left to you desolate! 39 For I tell you, you will never see me from now on until you say,

‘Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!’”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 23:37 Literally “in the manner in which”
  2. Matthew 23:37 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  3. Matthew 23:39 A quotation from Ps 118:26