Thematic Bible: Laments over jerusalem (just outside jerusalem)

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!

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 saw the city, as he approached, he wept over it, saying, "Would that you too knew even to-day on what your peace depends! But no, it is hidden from you! A time is coming for you when your enemies will throw up ramparts round you and encircle you and besiege you on every side read more.
and raze you and your children within you to the ground, leaving not one stone upon another within you ??and all because you would not understand when God was visiting you."