“When He was come near, He beheld the city, and wept over it.” Luke 19:41. What child of Israel could gaze upon the scene without a thrill of joy and admiration! But far other thoughts occupied the mind of Jesus. “The perfection of beauty” it stood, the pride of the Jewish nation. The rays of the setting sun lighted up the snowy whiteness of its marble walls and gleamed from golden gate and tower and pinnacle. In full view were the magnificent buildings of the temple. The daughter of Zion seemed in her pride to say, I sit a queen and shall see no sorrow as lovely then, and deeming herself as secure in Heaven's favor, as when, ages before, the royal minstrel sang: “Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion. In the midst of gardens and vineyards, and green slopes studded with pilgrims’ tents, rose the terraced hills, the stately palaces, and massive bulwarks of Israel's capital. It was the season of the Passover, and from all lands the children of Jacob had gathered there to celebrate the great national festival. Fair and peaceful was the scene spread out before Him. GC 17.1įrom the crest of Olivet, Jesus looked upon Jerusalem. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.” Luke 19:42-44. “If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
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