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Luke 13:34

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘Jerusalem, Jerusalem,   who kills the prophets and stones   those who are sent to her.   How often I wanted to gather your children   together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings,   but you were not willing!

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Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute?  They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers  you have now become.


For the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, has said: ‘You will be delivered by returning and resting; your strength will lie in quiet confidence. But you are not willing.’


But turning to them, Jesus said, ‘Daughters of Jerusalem,   do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and your children.


They will crush you and your children among you to the ground,   and they will not leave one stone on another   in your midst, because you did not recognise the time when God visited you.’


Do not be like your ancestors;  the earlier prophets proclaimed to them:  This is what the Lord of Armies says: Turn from your evil ways and your evil deeds.  But they did not listen or pay attention to me #– #this is the Lord’s declaration.


My people are bent on turning from me. Though they call to him on high, he will not exalt them at all.


Israel called to the Egyptians even as Israel was leaving them. They kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols.


This is what the Lord says: Stand by the roadways and look. Ask about the ancient paths, ‘Which is the way to what is good? ’ Then take it and find rest for yourselves. But they protested, ‘We won’t! ’


I have struck down your children in vain; they would not accept discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a ravaging lion.


May the Lord reward you for what you have done,  and may you receive a full reward from the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge.’


while the rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.


He sent his servants to summon those invited to the banquet,   but they didn’t want to come.


I weep because of these things; my eyes flow  with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to keep me alive. My children are desolate because the enemy has prevailed.


Why was no one there when I came? Why was there no one to answer when I called? Is my arm too weak to redeem? Or do I have no power to rescue? Look, I dry up the sea by my rebuke; I turn the rivers into a wilderness; their fish rot because of lack of water and die of thirst.


You were patient with them for many years, and your Spirit warned them through your prophets, but they would not listen. Therefore, you handed them over to the surrounding peoples.


The words of Jonadab, son of Rechab, have been carried out. He commanded his descendants not to drink wine, and they have not drunk to this day because they have obeyed their ancestor’s command. But I have spoken to you time and time again,  , and you have not obeyed me!


They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who executed him with the sword and threw his corpse into the burial place of the common people.


But they were disobedient and rebelled against you. They flung your law behind their backs and killed your prophets who warned them in order to turn them back to you. They committed terrible blasphemies.


If only they were wise, they would comprehend this; they would understand their fate.


If only they had such a heart to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that they and their children would prosper for ever.


Their dead bodies  , will lie in the main street  of the great city,  which figuratively  is called Sodom  and Egypt,  where also their Lord was crucified.


Saul agreed with putting him to death. On that day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout the land of Judea and Samaria.


While they were stoning Stephen, he called out, ‘Lord Jesus, receive my spirit! ’


‘Then he became angry and didn’t want to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.


Children of Zion,  rejoice and be glad in the Lord your God, because he gives you the autumn rain for your vindication.  , He sends showers for you, both autumn and spring rain  as before.


Yet it happened because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous within her.


Therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I will certainly bring on Judah and on all the residents of Jerusalem all the disaster I have pronounced against them because I have spoken to them, but they have not obeyed, and I have called to them, but they did not answer.” ’





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