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36 Yes! I tell you that all this will fall on this generation!

37 “Yerushalayim! Yerushalayim! You kill the prophets! You stone those who are sent to you! How often I wanted to gather your children, just as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, but you refused! 38 Look! God is abandoning your house to you, leaving it desolate.[a]

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  1. Matthew 23:38 Jeremiah 22:5

36 Truly I tell you, all this will come on this generation.(A)

37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you,(B) how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings,(C) and you were not willing. 38 Look, your house is left to you desolate.(D)

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