But they did not listen, and did not stretch out their ear. But they walked in their own plans, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one killing the prophets and stoning those sent to her. How often I desired to gather your children in the way a bird gathers her chicks under her wings! And you did not desire it.
Would that this heart of theirs would be like this always, to fear Me, and to keep all My commandments, that it might be well with them, and with their sons forever.