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.
And Jehovah, God of their fathers, sendeth unto them by the hand of His messengers — rising early and sending — for He hath had pity on His people, and on His habitation,
In vain I have smitten your sons, Instruction they have not accepted, Devoured hath your sword your prophets, As a destroying lion.
‘Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the tombs of the righteous,
So that ye testify to yourselves, that ye are sons of them who did murder the prophets;
See Israel according to the flesh! are not those eating the sacrifices in the fellowship of the altar?
and our hope [is] stedfast for you, knowing that even as ye are partakers of the sufferings — so also of the comfort.