Matthew 23:37

A Conservative Version

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who have been sent to her. How often I wanted to gathered thy children together the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and ye would not.

Cross References

Ruth 2:12

LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings thou have come to take refuge.

Psalm 91:4

He will cover thee with his pinions, and under his wings shall thou take refuge. His truth is a shield and a buckler.

Psalm 17:8

Keep me as the apple of the eye. Hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

Psalm 36:7

How precious is thy loving kindness, O God, and the sons of men take refuge under the shadow of thy wings.

Nehemiah 9:26

Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and killed thy prophets who testified against them to turn them again to thee, and they wrought great provocations.

Psalm 63:7

For thou have been my help, and in the shadow of thy wings I will rejoice.

Jeremiah 35:15

I have also sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the

Matthew 23:30

and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

Matthew 22:3

And he sent forth his bondmen to call those who were invited to the wedding festivities, and they did not want to come.

Matthew 5:12

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, because your reward is great in the heavens, for so they persecuted the prophets before you.

Hosea 11:2

The more [the prophets] called them, the more they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

Psalm 57:1

Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in thee. Yea, in the shadow of thy wings I will take refuge until calamities be passed by.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

The men who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and who persecuted us, and are not pleasing to God, and are contrary to all men.

Jeremiah 44:4

However I sent all my servants the prophets to you, rising up early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate.

Matthew 22:6

and the others having seized his bondmen, abused and killed them.

Zechariah 1:4

Be ye not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus says LORD of hosts: Return ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings, but they did not hear, nor hearken to me, says LORD.

Hosea 11:7

And my people are bent on backsliding from me. Though they call them to [him who is] on high, none at all will exalt [him].

Jeremiah 26:23

and they fetched forth Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

Jeremiah 6:8

Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from thee, lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou may be saved. How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee?

Jeremiah 2:30

In vain I have smitten your sons. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a destroying lion.

Isaiah 50:2

Why, when I came, was there no man? When I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness.

Revelation 17:6

And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the sanctified, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And having seen her, I wondered with great amazement.

Luke 15:28

But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore, his father having come out, he called him.

Isaiah 5:4

What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, it brought forth wild grapes?

Jeremiah 32:31

For this city has been to me a provocation of my anger and of my wrath from the day that they built it even to this day, that I should remove it from before my face,

Jeremiah 36:26

And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but LORD hid them.

Hosea 7:13

Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

Matthew 23:31

So then ye testify to yourselves that ye are sons of those who murdered the prophets.