Thematic Bible: Laments over jerusalem (just outside jerusalem)

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that kill the prophets, and stone them which are sent unto you, how often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!

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 when he came near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, Saying, If you had known, even you, at least in this your day, the things which belong unto your peace! but now they are hid from your eyes. For the days shall come upon you, that your enemies shall cast a bank about you, and surround you, and hem you in on every side, read more.
And shall lay you even with the ground, and your children within you; and they shall not leave in you one stone upon another; because you knew not the time of your visitation.