Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem
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Now as He drew near, He saw the city and c wept over it,
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saying, "If you had known, even you, especially in this d your day, the things that e make for your f peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
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"For days will come upon you when your enemies will g build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side,
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h "and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and i they will not leave in you one stone upon another, j because you did not know the time of your visitation."
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Cross References
Isaiah 53:3
He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
John 11:35
Jesus wept.
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Cross References
Psalms 95:7
For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture, And the sheep of His hand. Today, if you will hear His voice:
Psalms 95:8
Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, As in the day of trial in the wilderness.
Hebrews 3:13
But exhort one another daily, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
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Cross References
Luke 1:77 - 79
To give knowledge of salvation to His people By the remission of their sins.
Acts 10:36
The word which God sent to the children of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ - He is Lord of all -
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Cross References
Romans 5:1
Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Cross References
Isaiah 29:3
I will encamp against you all around, I will lay siege against you with a mound, And I will raise siegeworks against you.
Isaiah 29:4
You shall be brought down, You shall speak out of the ground; Your speech shall be low, out of the dust; Your voice shall be like a medium's, out of the ground; And your speech shall whisper out of the dust.
Jeremiah 6:3
The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her. They shall pitch their tents against her all around. Each one shall pasture in his own place.
Jeremiah 6:6
For thus has the LORD of hosts said: "Cut down trees, And build a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be punished. She is full of oppression in her midst.
Luke 21:20
But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near.
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Cross References
1 Kings 9:7
Then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight. Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
1 Kings 9:8
"And as for this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will hiss, and say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?'
Micah 3:12
Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed like a field, Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins, And the mountain of the temple Like the bare hills of the forest.
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Cross References
Matthew 24:2
And Jesus said to them, "Do you not see all these things? Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
Mark 13:2
And Jesus answered and said to him, "Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone shall be left upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
Luke 21:6
"These things which you see - the days will come in which not one stone shall be left upon another that shall not be thrown down."
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Cross References
Daniel 9:24
Seventy weeks are determined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy.
Luke 1:68
Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, For He has visited and redeemed His people.
Luke 1:78
Through the tender mercy of our God, With which the Dayspring from on high has visited us.
1 Peter 2:12
Having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation.
New King James Version (NKJV) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.