Matthew 23:37

Tree of Life Version

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

Cross References

Ruth 2:12

May Adonai repay you for what you have done, and may you be fully rewarded by Adonai, God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

Psalm 91:4

He will cover you with His feathers, and under His wings you will find refuge. His faithfulness is body armor and shield.

Psalm 17:8

Protect me like the pupil of the eye. Hide me in the shadow of Your wings,

Psalm 36:7

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like the great deep. You preserve man and beast, Adonai.

Nehemiah 9:26

“Nonetheless they became contentious and rebelled against You. They cast Your Torah behind their back. They killed Your prophets who warned them to return to You; they committed appalling blasphemies.

Psalm 63:7

When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You through the night watches.

Jeremiah 35:15

“I have sent also to you all My servants the prophets, sending them early and often, saying: ‘Return you now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and you will dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers; but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to Me.

Matthew 23:30

And you say, ‘If we’d been alive in the days of our forefathers, we wouldn’t have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

Matthew 22:3

He sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they wouldn’t come.

Matthew 5:12

Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great! For in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”

Hosea 11:2

They called out to them but they departed from their presence. They kept sacrificing to the Baalim and burning incense up to idols.

Psalm 57:1

For the music director, “Do Not Destroy,” a Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who killed both the Lord Yeshua and the prophets and drove us out. They are not pleasing to God and hostile to all people,

Jeremiah 44:4

Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets, sending them early and often, saying: ‘Oh, do not do this loathsome thing that I hate.’

Matthew 22:6

And the rest grabbed his servants, humiliated them, and killed them.

Zechariah 1:4

Do not be like your fathers to whom the former prophets cried out saying, thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, ‘Turn back now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me.’ It is a declaration of Adonai.

Hosea 11:7

So My people are bent on turning from Me. Although they are being called upwards, none will rise up.

Jeremiah 26:23

and they brought Uriah back from Egypt, and led him to King Jehoiakim, who slew him with the sword and threw his corpse into the burial place of the common people.

Jeremiah 6:8

Be warned, O Jerusalem, lest I abandon you, lest I make you desolate— an uninhabited land.”

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, purify your heart from wickedness, so that you may be saved. How long will your wicked thoughts lodge within you?

Jeremiah 2:30

“In vain I struck your children. They took no correction. Your sword devoured your prophets like a ravaging lion.”

Isaiah 50:2

Why was no one there when I came? Why was there no one to answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, I dry up the sea at My rebuke, I make rivers a wilderness— their fish stink for lack of water and die of thirst.

Revelation 17:6

And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the kedoshim and with the blood of the witnesses of Yeshua. When I saw her, I was totally astounded.

Luke 15:28

“But the older son was angry and didn’t want to go in. So his father came outside and pleaded with him.

Isaiah 5:4

What more was there to do for my vineyard that I have not done? Why then, when I expected it to yield good grapes, did it yield worthless grapes?

Jeremiah 32:31

“Indeed this city has caused My anger and of My fury from the day that they built it up to this day, so that I will remove it from before My face,

Jeremiah 36:26

Then the king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, along with Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to seize the scribe Baruch and the prophet Jeremiah—but Adonai hid them.

Hosea 7:13

Oy to them! For they strayed from Me. Devastation to them! For they rebelled against Me. Should I redeem them after they spoke lies about Me?

Matthew 23:31

So you testify against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.