Matthew 23:37

Young's Literal Translation 1898

‘Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that art killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto thee, how often did I will to gather thy children together, as a hen doth gather her own chickens under the wings, and ye did not will.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:26

‘And they are disobedient, and rebel against Thee, and cast Thy law behind their back, and Thy prophets they have slain, who testified against them, to bring them back unto Thee, and they do great despisings,

Psalm 17:8

Keep me as the apple, the daughter of the eye; In shadow of Thy wings thou dost hide me.

Psalm 36:7

How precious [is] Thy kindness, O God, And the sons of men In the shadow of Thy wings do trust.

Psalm 57:1

Favour me, O God, favour me, For in Thee is my soul trusting, And in the shadow of Thy wings I trust, Until the calamities passover.

Psalm 63:7

For Thou hast been a help to me, And in the shadow of Thy wings I sing.

Psalm 91:4

With His pinion He covereth thee over, And under His wings thou dost trust, A shield and buckler [is] His truth.

Isaiah 5:4

What — to do still to my vineyard, That I have not done in it! Wherefore, I waited to the yielding of grapes, And it yieldeth bad ones!

Isaiah 50:2

Wherefore have I come, and there is no one? I called, and there is none answering, Hath My hand been at all short of redemption? And is there not in me power to deliver? Lo, by My rebuke I dry up a sea, I make rivers a wilderness, Their fish stinketh, for there is no water, And dieth with thirst.

Jeremiah 2:30

In vain I have smitten your sons, Instruction they have not accepted, Devoured hath your sword your prophets, As a destroying lion.

Jeremiah 26:23

And they bring out Urijah from Egypt, and bring him in unto the king Jehoiakim, and he smiteth him with a sword, and casteth his corpse unto the graves of the sons of the people.’

Jeremiah 32:31

‘For a cause of Mine anger, and a cause of My fury, hath this city been to Me, even from the day that they built it, and unto this day — to turn it aside from before My face,

Jeremiah 35:15

And I send unto you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying: Turn back, I pray you, each from his evil way, and amend your doings, yea, ye do not walk after other gods, to serve them, and dwell ye on the ground that I have given to you and to your fathers; and ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto Me.

Jeremiah 36:26

And the king commandeth Jerahmeel son of Hammelek, and Seraiah son of Azriel, and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Jehovah doth hide them.

Jeremiah 4:14

Wash from evil thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, Till when dost thou lodge in thy heart Thoughts of thy strength?

Jeremiah 44:4

‘And I send unto you all my servants, the prophets, rising early and sending, saying: I pray you, do not this abomination that I have hated —

Jeremiah 6:8

Be instructed, O Jerusalem, Lest My soul be alienated from thee, Lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.

Hosea 11:2

They have called to them rightly, They have gone from before them, To lords they do sacrifice, And to graven images they make perfume.

Hosea 11:7

And My people are hanging in suspense, about My returning, And unto the Most High they do call, Together they exalt not.

Hosea 7:13

Woe to them, for they wandered from Me, Destruction to them, for they transgressed against Me, And I — I ransom them, and they have spoken lies against Me,

Zechariah 1:4

Ye shall not be as your fathers, To whom the former prophets called, saying: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Turn back I pray you, From your evil ways and from your evil doings, And they did not hearken, Nor attend to Me — an affirmation of Jehovah.

Matthew 22:3

and he sent forth his servants to call those having been called to the marriage-feasts, and they were not willing to come.

Matthew 22:6

and the rest, having laid hold on his servants, did insult and slay [them].

Matthew 23:30

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.

Matthew 23:31

So that ye testify to yourselves, that ye are sons of them who did murder the prophets;

Matthew 5:12

rejoice ye and be glad, because your reward [is] great in the heavens, for thus did they persecute the prophets who were before you.

Luke 15:28

‘And he was angry, and would not go in, therefore his father, having come forth, was entreating him;

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who did both put to death the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and did persecute us, and God they are not pleasing, and to all men [are] contrary,

Revelation 17:6

And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the saints, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus, and I did wonder — having seen her — with great wonder;

Ruth 2:12

Jehovah doth recompense thy work, and thy reward is complete from Jehovah, God of Israel, under whose wings thou hast come to take refuge.’