Matthew 23:37

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldest not?

Cross References

Ruth 2:12

The Lord render unto thee for thy work: and mayest thou receive a full reward of the Lord the God of Israel, to whom thou art come, and under whose wings thou art fled.

Psalm 91:4

Upon an instrument of ten strings, upon the psaltery: with a canticle upon the harp.

Psalm 17:8

The earth shook and trembled: the foundations of the mountains were troubled and were moved, because he was angry with them.

Psalm 36:7

Be subject to the Lord and pray to him Envy not the man who prospereth in his way; the man who doth unjust things.

Nehemiah 9:26

But they provoked thee to wrath, and departed from thee, and threw thy law behind their backs. And they killed thy prophets, who admonished them earnestly to return to thee. And they were guilty of great blasphemies.

Psalm 63:7

They have searched after iniquities: they have failed in their search. Man shall come to a deep heart:

Jeremiah 35:15

And I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early, and sending and saying: Return ye every man from his wicked way and make your ways good, and follow not strange gods nor worship them: and you shall dwell in the land: which I gave you and your fathers. And you have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened to me.

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 his servants, to call them that were invited to the marriage; and they would not come.

Matthew 5:12

Be glad and rejoice, for your reward is very great in heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets that were before you.

Hosea 11:2

As they called them, they went away from before their face: they offered victims to Baalim, and sacrificed to idols.

Psalm 57:1

Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are adversaries to all men;

Jeremiah 44:4

And I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending, and saying: Do not commit this abominable thing which I hate.

Matthew 22:6

And the rest laid hands on his servants, and having treated them contumeliously, put them to death.

Zechariah 1:4

Be not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have cried, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Turn ye from your evil ways, and from your wicked thoughts: but they did not give ear, neither did they hearken to me, saith the Lord.

Hosea 11:7

And my people shall long for my return: but a yoke shall be put upon them together, which shall not be taken off.

Jeremiah 26:23

And they brought Urias out of Egypt: and brought him to king Joakim: and he slew him with the sword: and he cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

Jeremiah 6:8

Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land uninhabited.

Jeremiah 4:14

Wash thy heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that thou mayst be saved. How long shall hurtful thoughts abide in thee?

Jeremiah 2:30

In vain have I struck your children: they have not received correction. Your sword hath devoured your prophets: your generation is like a ravaging lion.

Isaiah 50:2

Because I came, and there was not a man: I called, and there was none that would hear. Is my hand shortened and become little, that I cannot redeem? Or is there no strength in me to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I will make the sea a desert, I will turn the rivers into dry land: the fishes shall rot for want of water and shall die for thirst.

Revelation 17:6

And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And I wondered, when I had seen her, with great admiration.

Luke 15:28

And he was angry, and would not go in. His father therefore coming out began to entreat him.

Isaiah 5:4

What is there that I ought to do more to my vineyard, that I have not done to it? Was it that I looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it hath brought forth wild grapes?

Jeremiah 32:31

For this city hath been to me a provocation and indignation from the day that they built it until this day in which it shall be taken out of my sight.

Jeremiah 36:26

And the king commanded Jeremiel the son of Amelech and Saraias the son of Ezriel and Selemias the son of Abdeel, to take up Baruch the scribe and Jeremias the prophet: but the Lord hid them.

Hosea 7:13

Woe to them, for they have departed from me: they shall be wasted because they have transgressed against me: and I redeemed them: and they have spoken lies against me.

Matthew 23:31

Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets.