5 Bible Verses about Being Earnest For Israel

As He approached it, just as soon as He saw the city, He burst into tears over it,

I am telling the truth as a Christian man. I am telling no lie, because my conscience enlightened by the Holy Spirit is bearing me witness to this fact, that I have deep grief and constant anguish in my heart; for I could wish myself accursed, even cut off from Christ, for the sake of my brothers, my natural kinsmen.

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! The city that has kept on murdering the prophets, and stoning those who have been sent to her, how often I have yearned to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, but you refused!

"O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! The city that continues to murder the prophets, and to stone those who are sent to her, how often I have yearned to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings. But you refused!

Brothers, my heart's good will goes out for them, and my prayer to God is that they may be saved.