Luke 19:43

"The time will come for you when your enemies will throw ramparts around you, and encompass you, and shut you in on every side, and raze you to the ground,

Montgomery New Testament

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

42exclaiming. "Oh that at this time you knew, yes, even you, on what your peace depends! But now it is hidden from your eyes.

44"you and your children within you. And they will not leave in you one stone upon the another. Because you knew not the time of your visitation."

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Cross References

Matthew 22:7"Then the king’s wrath was roused, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

Mark 13:14"But when you see the Abomination of Desolation ‘standing where he ought not’ (let the reader ponder this), then let those in Judea 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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