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 Similarly, when Jesus was being led to his death by the Roman soldiers, he addressed the women of Jerusalem and said: "Days are coming in which people will say, 'Happy are the barren women, and the wombs that did not give birth and the breasts that did not nurse!'   Then they will start to say to the mountains, 'Fall over us!' and the hills, 'Cover  us over!' " (Luke 23:29.30) The destruction of Jerusalem  by the Romans in 70 C.E. is well documented, and it is evident that Jesus' words had an import similar to that of Hosea's.  There was no hiding place for then for the Jews who remained in Judea. Wherever they tried to hide in Jerusalem, or even when they fled to the mountaintop citadel of Masada, they were unable to escape the violent expression of Jehovah's judgment.

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