TSK · Matthew 23:37

May the LORD reward your efforts! May your acts of kindness be repaid fully by the LORD God of Israel, from whom you have sought protection!”

The Babylonians Destroy Jerusalem The LORD God of their ancestors continually warned them through his messengers, for he felt compassion for his people and his dwelling place.

Protect me as you would protect the pupil of your eye! Hide me in the shadow of your wings!

For the music director; according to the al-tashcheth style; a prayer of David, written when he fled from Saul into the cave. Have mercy on me, O God! Have mercy on me! For in you I have taken shelter. In the shadow of your wings I take shelter until trouble passes.

I said,‘Listen, my people! I will warn you! O Israel, if only you would obey me!

However, because I called but you refused to listen, because I stretched out my hand but no one was paying attention,

“It did no good for me to punish your people. They did not respond to such correction. You slaughtered your prophets like a voracious lion.”

So take warning, Jerusalem, or I will abandon you in disgust and make you desolate, a place where no one can live.”

For I solemnly warned your ancestors to obey me. I warned them again and again, ever since I delivered them out of Egypt until this very day.

and they brought Uriah back from there. They took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him executed and had his body thrown into the burial place of the common people.

Then Jeremiah said to them,“You sent me to the LORD God of Israel to make your request known to him. Here is what he says to you:

But the more I summoned them, the farther they departed from me. They sacrificed to the Baal idols and burned incense to images.

“Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the former prophets called out, saying,‘This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has said,“Turn now from your evil wickedness,”’ but they would by no means obey me,” says the LORD.

But the tenants seized his slaves, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

The rest seized his slaves, insolently mistreated them, and killed them.

But those tenants seized his slave, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

At the time for the banquet he sent his slave to tell those who had been invited,‘Come, because everything is now ready.’

But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying,‘We do not want this man to be king over us!’

“You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!

When they have completed their testimony, the beast that comes up from the abyss will make war on them and conquer them and kill them.