5 Bible Verses about Being Earnest For Israel

And, when He came near, seeing the city, He wept over it,

I am speaking a truth in Christ?? am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit??2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart (for I was wishing myself to be a curse from Christ) for my brethren, my kinsmen according to flesh;

Jerusalem! Jerusalem! that kills the prophets, and stones those sent to her! how often did I wish to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those sent to her; how often I wished to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is abandoned to you!

Brethren, the desire, indeed, of my heart, and my supplication to God in their behalf, is that they may be saved.