Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing — the lament over Jerusalem is the most intimate expression of divine grief in the Gospels: the Messiah's longing to shelter the city is met by the city's unwillingness to be sheltered. Psalm 91:4's wing-sheltering image of divine protection is the resource the city has refused.

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