Luke 13:34

New American Bible - revised edition

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how many times I yearned to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were unwilling!

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:26

But they were contemptuous and rebelled against you: they cast your law behind their backs. They murdered your prophets who bore witness against them to bring them back to you: they were guilty of great insults.

Nehemiah 9:30

You were patient with them for many years, bearing witness against them through your spirit, by means of your prophets; Still they would not listen. Therefore you delivered them into the power of the peoples of the lands.

Psalm 149:2

Let Israel be glad in its maker, the people of Zion rejoice in their king.

Psalm 17:8

Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings

Psalm 36:7

Your justice is like the highest mountains; your judgments, like the mighty deep; human being and beast you sustain, Lord.

Psalm 57:1

For the director. Do not destroy. A miktam of David, when he fled from Saul into a cave.

Psalm 81:13

So I thrust them away to the hardness of their heart; ‘Let them walk in their own machinations.’

Psalm 91:4

He will shelter you with his pinions, and under his wings you may take refuge; his faithfulness is a protecting shield.

Isaiah 30:15

For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: By waiting and by calm you shall be saved, in quiet and in trust shall be your strength. But this you did not will.

Isaiah 50:2

Why was no one there when I came? Why did no one answer when I called? Is my hand too short to ransom? Have I not the strength to deliver? See, with my rebuke I dry up the sea, I turn rivers into wilderness; Their fish rot for lack of water, and die of thirst.

Jeremiah 2:30

In vain I struck your children; correction they did not take. Your sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

Jeremiah 26:23

and they brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to Jehoiakim the king, who struck him down with the sword and threw his corpse into the common burial ground.

Jeremiah 35:14

The words of Jonadab, Rechab’s son, by which he commanded his children not to drink wine, have been upheld: to this day they have not drunk wine; they obeyed their ancestor’s command. I, however, have spoken to you time and again. But you did not obey me!

Jeremiah 35:17

Now, therefore, says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel: I will soon bring upon Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem every evil with which I threatened them because I spoke but they did not obey, I called but they did not answer.

Jeremiah 6:16

Thus says the Lord: Stand by the earliest roads, ask the pathways of old, “Which is the way to good?” and walk it; thus you will find rest for yourselves. But they said, “We will not walk it.”

Lamentations 1:16

For these things I weep—My eyes! My eyes! They stream with tears! How far from me is anyone to comfort, anyone to restore my life. My children are desolate; the enemy has prevailed.”

Lamentations 4:13

Except for the sins of her prophets and the crimes of her priests, Who poured out in her midst the blood of the just.

Hosea 11:2

The more I called them, the farther they went from me, Sacrificing to the Baals and burning incense to idols.

Hosea 11:7

My people have their mind set on apostasy; though they call on God in unison, he shall not raise them up.

Joel 2:23

Children of Zion, delight and rejoice in the Lord, your God! For he has faithfully given you the early rain, sending rain down on you, the early and the late rains as before.

Zechariah 1:4

Do not be like your ancestors to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: Thus says the Lord of hosts: Turn from your evil ways and from your wicked deeds. But they did not listen or pay attention to me—oracle of the Lord.—

Matthew 22:3

He dispatched his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they refused to come.

Matthew 22:6

The rest laid hold of his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.

Luke 15:28

He became angry, and when he refused to enter the house, his father came out and pleaded with him.

Luke 19:44

They will smash you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave one stone upon another within you because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.” The Cleansing of the Temple.

Luke 23:28

Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep instead for yourselves and for your children,

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They put to death those who foretold the coming of the righteous one, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become.

Acts 7:59

As they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

Acts 8:1

Now Saul was consenting to his execution. Persecution of the Church. On that day, there broke out a severe persecution of the church in Jerusalem, and all were scattered throughout the countryside of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

Deuteronomy 32:29

If they had insight they would realize this, they would understand their end:

Deuteronomy 5:29

Would that they might always be of such a mind, to fear me and to keep all my commandments! Then they and their descendants would prosper forever.

Revelation 11:8

Their corpses will lie in the main street of the great city, which has the symbolic names “Sodom” and “Egypt,” where indeed their Lord was crucified.

Ruth 2:12

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