"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

41. When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it,

42. saying,"If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.

43. For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,

44. and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn't know the time of your visitation."