Thematic Bible: Laments over jerusalem (just outside jerusalem)

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who murders the prophets and stones [to death] those [messengers] who are sent to her [by God]! How often I wanted to gather your children together [around Me], as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling.

Verse Concepts

God, Feminine Descriptions OfAboundingAffection, ExpressingMaternal LoveBeing Earnest For IsraelGuardiansHeart, DivineMale And FemaleMercy, Of Jesus ChristMothers, As A SymbolRefugeRejection Of GodSensitivitySuffering, Of Jesus Christ

TendernessWingsBirds, Types Of BirdsCompassion, Of ChristChickensGathered By GodDuplicating WordsJesus Christ, Love OfWings Of BirdsKilling ProphetsProphets KilledGod Sends ProphetsPeople UnwillingMothers Love For Children

And as He approached, He saw the city, and He wept [ audibly] over it, Exclaiming, Would that you had known personally, even at least in this your day, the things that make for peace (for freedom from all the distresses that are experienced as the result of sin and upon which your peace -- "your security, safety, prosperity, and happiness -- "depends)! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For a time is coming upon you when your enemies will throw up a bank [with pointed stakes] about you and surround you and shut you in on every side. read more.
And they will dash you down to the ground, you [Jerusalem] and your children within you; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, [all] because you did not come progressively to recognize and know and understand [from observation and experience] the time of your visitation [that is, when God was visiting you, the time in which God showed Himself gracious toward you and offered you salvation through Christ].