Luke 19:43

Because days will come on you, and your enemies will cast a rampart around you, and surround you around, and press you on every side,

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In The King James Version

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,

In Context

42saying, “If you knew, even you, at least in this your day, the things for your peace; but now they were hid from your eyes.

44and lay you low, and your children within you, and they will not leave in you a stone on a stone, because you did not know the time of your inspection.”

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:49YHWH lifts up a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth—it flies as the eagle—a nation whose tongue you have not heard,

Isaiah 29:1Woe [to] Ariel, Ariel, || The city of the encampment of David! Add year to year, let festivals go around.

Jeremiah 6:3Shepherds and their droves come to her, || They have struck tents by her all around, || They have each fed [in] his own station.”

Ezekiel 26:8He slays your daughters in the field by sword, || And he has made a fort against you, || And has poured out a mound against you, || And has raised a buckler against you.

Matthew 22:7And the king having heard, was angry, and having sent forth his soldiers, he destroyed those murderers, and their city he set on fire;

Mark 13:14And when you may see the abomination of the desolation, that was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it should not (whoever is reading let him understand), then those in Judea, let them flee to the mountains;

Matthew Henry on Luke 19:42-48

The Doom of Jerusalem Lamented; The Doom of Jerusalem Foretold. 41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, 42 Saying, 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. 43 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, 44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not… Read the whole commentary →

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