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)

⁵² Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute?^(A) They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers^(B) you have now become.

¹⁵ who killed the Lord Jesus^(A) and the prophets and persecuted us.^(B) They displease God and are hostile to everyone,