Matthew 23:37-39

Amplified Bible

Lament over Jerusalem

³⁷ “^[a]O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who murders the prophets and stones [to death] those [messengers] who are sent to her [by God]! How often I wanted to gather your children together [around Me], as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling.^{(A) 38} Listen carefully: your house is being left to you desolate [completely abandoned by God and destitute of His protection]!^{(B) 39} For I say to you, you will not see Me again [ministering to you publicly] until you say, ‘Blessed [to be celebrated with praise] is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’”^(C)