Bible Verses About The Christ Jesus: His judgments upon the Jews

`Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that art killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto thee, how often did I will to gather thy children together, as a hen doth gather her own chickens under the wings, and ye did not will.

Lo, left desolate to you is your house;

for I say to you, ye may not see me henceforth, till ye may say, Blessed is he who is coming in the name of the Lord.'

And on the morrow, they having come forth from Bethany, he hungered,

and having seen a fig-tree afar off having leaves, he came, if perhaps he shall find anything in it, and having come to it, he found nothing except leaves, for it was not a time of figs,

and Jesus answering said to it, `No more from thee--to the age--may any eat fruit;' and his disciples were hearing.

and Jesus having turned unto them, said, `Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but for yourselves weep ye, and for your children;

for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;

then they shall begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us, and to the hills, Cover us; --

for, if in the green tree they do these things--in the dry what may happen?'