Matthew 23:37 - The Scriptures 1998

³⁷ “Yerushalayim, Yerushalayim, killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to her! How often I wished to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, but you would not!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, murdering the prophets and stoning those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together as a mother fowl gathers her brood under her wings, and you refused!

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

Common English Bible

³⁷ “Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You who kill the prophets and stone those who were sent to you. How often I wanted to gather your people together, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings. But you didn’t want that.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁷ Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets and stone those who have been sent to you. How often I have wanted to gather your children together, in the way that a hen gathers her young under her wings. But you were not willing!

Matthew 23:37 Cross References

Nehemiah 9:26

“But they became disobedient and rebelled against You, and cast Your Torah behind their backs. And they slew Your prophets who had warned them, to bring them back to Yourself. And they worked great blasphemies.

Psalm 17:8

Guard me as the apple of Your eye. Hide me under the shadow of Your wings,

Psalm 36:7

How precious is Your kindness, O Elohim! And the sons of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings.

Psalm 57:1

Show me favour, O Elohim, show me favour! For in You my being is taking refuge; And in the shadow of Your wings I take refuge, Until destruction passes by.

Psalm 63:7

For You have been my help, And in the shadow of Your wings I sing.

Psalm 91:4

He covers you with His feathers, And under His wings you take refuge; His truth is a shield and armour.

Isaiah 5:4

“What more could have been done to My vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I waited for the yielding of grapes, did it yield rotten ones?

Isaiah 50:2

“When I came, why was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Was My hand too short to redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? See, by My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; their fish stink for there is not water, and die of thirst.

Jeremiah 2:30

“In vain have I smitten your children – they received no instruction. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a destroying lion.

Jeremiah 26:23

And they brought Uriyahu from Mitsrayim and brought him to Yehoyaqim the sovereign, who smote him with the sword and threw his dead body into the graves of the common people.

Jeremiah 32:31

“For this city has been a cause for My displeasure and My wrath from the day that they built it, even to this day that I should remove it from before My face,

Jeremiah 35:15

“And I sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, ‘Turn, each one from his evil way, and make good your deeds, and do not go after other mighty ones to serve them, and you shall dwell in the land which I have given you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear, nor obeyed Me.

Jeremiah 36:26

And the sovereign commanded Yeraḥ

Jeremiah 4:14

O Yerushalayim, wash your heart from evil, and be saved. Till when would your wicked thoughts remain within you?

Jeremiah 44:4

‘And I sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, “Please do not do this abominable matter that I hate!”

Jeremiah 6:8

“Be instructed, O Yerushalayim, lest My being be torn from you, lest I make you a waste, a land not inhabited.”

Hosea 11:2

“They called to them, so they went from their face. They slaughtered to the Baʽ

Hosea 11:7

“My people are bent towards backsliding from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He lifts none of them up.

Hosea 7:13

“Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, because they have transgressed against Me! And I Myself have ransomed them, yet they have spoken falsehoods against Me,

Zechariah 1:4

“Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, ‘Thus said יהוה  of hosts, “Turn back now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.” ’ But they did not obey or give heed to Me,” declares יהוה.

Matthew 22:3

and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast. But they would not come.

Matthew 22:6

“And the rest, having seized his servants, insulted and killed them.

Matthew 23:30

and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets.’

Matthew 23:31

“Thus you bear witness against yourselves that you are sons of those who did murder the prophets –

Matthew 5:12

“Rejoice and be glad, because your reward in the heavens is great. For in this way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Luke 15:28

“And he was wroth and would not go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who killed both the Master יהושע  and their own prophets, and have persecuted us, and who displease Elohim and are hostile to all men,

Revelation 17:6

And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the set-apart ones, and with the blood of the witnesses of יהושע. And having seen her, I marvelled – greatly marvelled!

Ruth 2:12

“יהוה  repay your work, and your reward is complete from יהוה  Elohim of Yisra’ĕ