Matthew 23:37–39

JESUS’S LAMENTING OVER JERUSALEM

37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem,j 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 chicksF under her wings, but you were not willing!k 38 See, your house is left to you desolate.l 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’!”G,m