Matthew 23:37 – 39

37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one 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 under her wings, but you were not willing!

38 See! Your house is left to you desolate;

39 for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’

After Jesus had predicted the persecution these Jews would bring upon the Christian prophets and disciples He mourned the fact that Jerusalem, which had always been the city of God from the time of King David until the present, (except for the time after its fall to the Babylonians until its rebuilding) would again fall this time to the Romans. He had no desire to destroy but the Jews ignored His pleading for them to accept Him as their Savior and protector. Instead they would continue to try to destroy the kingdom He was setting in order.

They continued to ignore His warnings, and His attempts to save it, so after the destruction handed to the Jews by the Romans in 70 A.D., it would remain desolate, which Thayer defines as “Solitary, lonely, and uninhabited

Jesus again renders prophecy, When the Jews accept Christ as their Savior which will be before the end of the world, then they will say to Him spiritually 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!'

Romans 11:26 (And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;)

2 Corinthians 3:14 – 16 (14 But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ. 15 But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. 16 Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.)