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Luke 13:34

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Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you kill prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have wanted to gather all your children together just like a hen does with her chicks under her wings, but you refused!

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But they completely rebelled against you. They tossed your Law over their shoulders. They killed your prophets who warned them to try and bring them back to you, and they committed terrible blasphemies.

You were patient with them for many years. You warned them by your Spirit through your prophets, but they didn't listen, so you handed them over to the other nations.

Let Israel celebrate their Creator; let the people of Zion be happy in their King.

Keep me safe as someone you love; hide me underneath your wings.

God, how priceless is your trustworthy love! Everyone can find protection under the shelter of your wings.

Please be kind to me, God! Be kind to me because I come to you for protection. I will shelter under the shadow of your wings until the danger is past.

If only my people would listen to me; if only Israel would follow my ways!

He will hide you under his feathers, and shelter you with his wings. His trustworthiness shields and protects you.

This is what the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, said, If you repent and patiently trust in me, you would be saved; you would be strong if you had such calm confidence. But you refused to do it.

When I came, why wasn't anyone there? When I called, why didn't anyone answer? Is it because I don't have the strength to save you, or the power to rescue you? Can't you see that if I order it, the sea will dry up? I can turn rivers into a desert. Their fish stink because they've died of thirst since there's no water.

It was pointless of me to punish your children because they refused to accept any discipline. You used your own swords to kill your prophets, destroying them like a ferocious lion.

They brought Uriah back from Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim. The king killed him with a sword and had his body thrown into the public graveyard.

The instructions of Jonadab son of Rechab have been followed. He ordered his descendants not to drink wine, and they have not drunk it to this day because they have obeyed their forefather's command. But I have told you what to do time and again, and yet you refuse to obey me!

So this is what the Lord God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Watch as I bring down on Judah and on all the people living in Jerusalem all the disasters I have threatened to do to them, because I have told them what to do but they haven't obeyed; I have appealed to them but they haven't responded.

This is what the Lord says: Go and stand where the roads divide, and look. Find out which are the old paths. Ask, “What's the right way?” Then follow it and you'll be content. But you refused, saying, “We won't go that way!”

This is why I'm weeping, tears flowing from my eyes, because there's is no one here to comfort me, no one to make me feel better. There's nothing left for my children because the enemy has conquered us.”

But this happened because of the sins of her prophets and the wickedness of her priests, who shed the blood of the innocent right there in the city.

As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed to the Baals and offered incense to idols.

My people are hanging on to their apostasy from me. They call him “god on high” but he will not raise them up at all.

People of Jerusalem! Celebrate and be happy in the Lord your God because he has given you rain to show his goodness. As before he sends the autumn and the spring rains.

You must not be like your forefathers. They were told by previous prophets: Give up your evil ways, and the evil things you do. But they would not listen or pay any attention to me, says the Lord.

“He sent out his servants to everyone who was invited to the wedding to tell them to come, but they refused.

The rest grabbed the king's servants, mistreated them, and killed them.

The brother became angry. He refused to go in. So his father came out to plead with him.

They will smash you to the ground, you and your children within you. They won't leave one stone on another within you, for you refused to accept salvation when it came to you.”

Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, don't weep for me. Weep for yourselves and your children.

Was there ever a prophet your fathers didn't persecute? They killed those who prophesied about the coming of the one who is truly good and right. He is the one you betrayed and murdered—

As they went on stoning him, Stephen prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

Saul approved of his killing. On that very day terrible persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except for the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.

How I wish they were wise, so they could understand it; they would recognize what was going to happen to them.

I only wish they really did respect me and always kept my commandments so that they and their children would do well for all time.

Their dead bodies will lie on the open street of the great city, called Sodom and Egypt in spiritual symbolism—also the place where their Lord was crucified.

May the Lord fully reward you for all you've done—the Lord, the God of Israel, to whom you've come for protection.”




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