And they were not forgiven. A generation later Jerusalem was pillaged, plundered and rubbled by the Romans. Exasperated by their mulish stubborn-ness, the Romans crucified all the Jews they could, stopping only when they totally cut down every tree to make crosses.
There was a 2nd Roman-Jewish war in 132-4, and now the Jews were threatened with death, if they even so much as glimpsed where Jerusalem USED to be. Diaspora !
And they were not forgiven. A generation later Jerusalem was pillaged, plundered and rubbled by the
