Psalm 79:1

Christian Standard Bible

Psalm 79

Faith amid Confusion

A psalm of Asaph.^(A)

¹God, the nations have invaded your inheritance,
desecrated your holy temple,
and turned Jerusalem into ruins.^(B)

Matthew 23:37

Christian Standard Bible

Jesus’s Lamenting over Jerusalem

³⁷“Jerusalem, Jerusalem,^(A) who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks^[a] under her wings, but you were not willing!^(B)

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Footnotes

23:37 Or as a mother bird gathers her young

Matthew 23:37 in all English translations

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