Luke 19:43

For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in 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, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.

44and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you did not know the time of your visitation."

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:49The Lord will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall not understand;

Isaiah 29:1Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;

Jeremiah 6:3Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her all around; they shall feed everyone in his place."

Ezekiel 26:8He shall kill your daughters in the field with the sword; and he shall make forts against you, and cast up a mound against you, and raise up the buckler against you.

Matthew 22:7The king was enraged, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

Mark 13:14But when you see the abomination of desolation, standing where it ought not (let the reader understand), then let those who are 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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