Luke 23:30 - Exposition

Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us . The allusion, in the first place, was to the awful siege of Jerusalem and to the undreamed-of woes which would accompany it; and in the second place, to the centuries of misery and persecution to which the children of these "daughters of Jerusalem'' would, as Jews, be subjected in all lands.