Luke 19:43
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New International Version (©2011)
The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Before long your enemies will build ramparts against your walls and encircle you and close in on you from every side.

English Standard Version (©2001)
For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"For the days will come upon you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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,

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
For the days will come on you when your enemies will build an embankment against you, surround you, and hem you in on every side.

International Standard Version (©2012)
because the days will come when your enemies will build walls around you, surround you, and close you in on every side.

NET Bible (©2006)
For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
“The days shall come to you when your enemies shall surround you and they shall press you in from every side.”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The time will come when enemy armies will build a wall to surround you and close you in on every side.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For the days shall come upon you, that your enemies shall cast a bank about you, and surround you, and hem you in on every side,

American King James Version
For the days shall come on you, that your enemies shall cast a trench about you, and compass you round, and keep you in on every side,

American Standard Version
For the days shall come upon thee, when thine enemies shall cast up a bank about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the days shall come upon thee, and thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and straiten thee on every side,

Darby Bible Translation
for days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall make a palisaded mound about thee, and shall close thee around, and keep thee in on every side,

English Revised Version
For the days shall come upon thee, when thine enemies shall cast up a bank about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,

Webster's Bible Translation
For the days shall come upon thee, that thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and encompass thee, and keep thee in on every side,

Weymouth New Testament
For the time is coming upon thee when thy foes will throw up around thee earthworks and a wall, investing thee and hemming thee in on every side.

World English Bible
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,

Young's Literal Translation
'Because days shall come upon thee, and thine enemies shall cast around thee a rampart, and compass thee round, and press thee on every side,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

19:41-48 Who can behold the holy Jesus, looking forward to the miseries that awaited his murderers, weeping over the city where his precious blood was about to be shed, without seeing that the likeness of God in the believer, consists much in good-will and compassion? Surely those cannot be right who take up any doctrines of truth, so as to be hardened towards their fellow-sinners. But let every one remember, that though Jesus wept over Jerusalem, he executed awful vengeance upon it. Though he delights not in the death of a sinner, yet he will surely bring to pass his awful threatenings on those who neglect his salvation. The Son of God did not weep vain and causeless tears, nor for a light matter, nor for himself. He knows the value of souls, the weight of guilt, and how low it will press and sink mankind. May he then come and cleanse our hearts by his Spirit, from all that defiles. May sinners, on every side, become attentive to the words of truth and salvation.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For the days shall come upon thee,.... Suddenly, and very quickly, as they did within forty years after this:

that thine enemies; the Romans, and such the Jews took them to be, and might easily understand who our Lord meant:

shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side: which was not only verified in the Roman armies closely besieging them; but particularly in this, as Josephus relates (t) that Titus built a wall about the city, of thirty nine furlongs long, and thirteen forts in it which reached ten furlongs, and all done in three days time; by which means they were pent up, starved, and famished, and reduced to inexpressible distress.

(t) De Bello Jud. l. 6. c. 8.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

43. a trench—a rampart; first of wood, and when this was burnt, a built wall, four miles in circuit, built in three days—so determined were they. This "cut off all hope of escape," and consigned the city to unparalleled horrors. (See Josephus, Wars of the Jews, 6.2; 12.3,4.) All here predicted was with dreadful literally fulfilled.

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Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem
41And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, 42Saying, If you had known, even you, at least in this your day, the things which belong to your peace! but now they are hid from your eyes. 43For the days shall come on you, that your enemies shall cast a trench about you, and compass you round, and keep you in on every side,

Ecclesiastes 9:14 There was once a small city with only a few people in it. And a powerful king came against it, surrounded it and built huge siege works against it.
Isaiah 29:3 I will encamp against you on all sides; I will encircle you with towers and set up my siege works against you.
Isaiah 37:33 "Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the king of Assyria: "He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow here. He will not come before it with shield or build a siege ramp against it.
Jeremiah 6:3 Shepherds with their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents around her, each tending his own portion."
Jeremiah 6:6 This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Cut down the trees and build siege ramps against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; it is filled with oppression.
Ezekiel 4:2 Then lay siege to it: Erect siege works against it, build a ramp up to it, set up camps against it and put battering rams around it.
Ezekiel 26:8 He will ravage your settlements on the mainland with the sword; he will set up siege works against you, build a ramp up to your walls and raise his shields against you.
Daniel 9:26 After the sixty-two 'sevens,' the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed.
Luke 19:42 and said, "If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace--but now it is hidden from your eyes.
Luke 21:20 "When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near.