Thematic Bible: Laments over jerusalem (just outside jerusalem)

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling. Verse ConceptsGod, Feminine Descriptions OfAboundingAffection, ExpressingMaternal LoveBeing Earnest For IsraelGuardiansHeart, DivineMale And FemaleMercy, Of Jesus ChristMothers, As A SymbolRefugeRejection Of GodSensitivitySuffering, Of Jesus ChristTendernessWingsBirds, Types Of BirdsCompassion, Of ChristChickensGathered By GodDuplicating WordsJesus Christ, Love OfWings Of BirdsKilling ProphetsProphets KilledGod Sends ProphetsPeople UnwillingMothers Love For Children

When He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it, saying, "If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes. "For the days will come upon you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side, read more.
and they will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation."