Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you — how often I longed to gather your children the way a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you refused!
In context
32He told them, “Go and tell that fox: look, I am driving out demons and completing cures today and tomorrow, and on the third day I reach my goal. 33Still, today and tomorrow and the next day I must keep going, because it is unthinkable for a prophet to die outside Jerusalem. 34Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you — how often I longed to gather your children the way a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you refused! 35Look, your house is left to you. And I tell you, you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord.’”
