Jesus’ warning that people will say to the mountains “Fall on us” and to the hills “Cover us” directly quotes the judgment language of Hosea 10:8.

Jesus’ warning to the daughters of Jerusalem belongs to the same Jerusalem-judgment horizon as Luke 21’s prophecy of siege, killing, captivity, and Gentile trampling.

Lamentations calls Daughter Zion to pour out tears for children dying in Jerusalem’s siege; Jesus tells the daughters of Jerusalem to weep for themselves and their children because devastating days are coming. Both scenes belong to the prophetic Jerusalem-lament tradition.