Luke 19:43
Good News Translation
The time will come when your enemies will surround you with barricades, blockade you, and close in on you from every side.

New Revised Standard Version
Indeed, the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up ramparts around you and surround you, and hem you in on every side.

Contemporary English Version
Jerusalem, the time will come when your enemies will build walls around you to attack you. Armies will surround you and close in on you from every side.

New American Bible
For the days are coming upon you when your enemies will raise a palisade against you; they will encircle you and hem you in on all sides.

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,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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,

the days.

Luke 21:20-24 And when you shall see Jerusalem compassed about with an army, then know that the desolation thereof is at hand. . . .

Deuteronomy 28:49-58 The Lord will bring upon thee a nation from afar, and from the uttermost ends of the earth, like an eagle that flyeth swiftly, whose tongue thou canst not understand, . . .

Psalm 37:12,13 The sinner shall watch the just man: and shall gnash upon him with his teeth. . . .

Daniel 9:26,27 And after sixty-two weeks Christ shall be slain: and the people that shall deny him shall not be his. And a people, with their leader, that shall come, shall destroy the city, and the sanctuary: and the end thereof shall be waste, and after the end of the war the appointed desolation. . . .

Matthew 22:7 But when the king had heard of it, he was angry: and sending his armies, he destroyed those murderers and burnt their city.

Matthew 23:37-39 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldst not? . . .

Mark 13:14-20 And when you shall see the abomination of desolation, standing where it ought not (he that readeth let him understand): then let them that are in Judea flee unto the mountains. . . .

1 Thessalonians 2:15,16 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are adversaries to all men; . . .

cast.

Luke 19:39 And some of the Pharisees, from amongst the multitude, said to him: Master, rebuke thy disciples.

furlongs in circumference; and when this was effected, the Jews were so enclosed on every side, that no person could escape from the city, and no provision could be brought in.

Isaiah 29:1-4 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel the city which David took: year is added to year. the solemnities are at an end. . . .

Jeremiah 6:3-6 The shepherds shall come to her with their flocks: they have pitched their tents against her round about: every one shall feed them that are under his hand. . . .

Context
Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem
42If thou also hadst known, and that in this thy day, the things that are to thy peace: but now they are hidden from thy eyes. 43For 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, 44And beat thee flat to the ground, and thy children who are in thee. And they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone: because thou hast not known the time of thy visitation.…
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 9:14
A little city, and few men in it: there came against it a great king, and invested it, and built bulwarks round about it, and the siege was perfect.

Isaiah 29:3
And I will make a circle round about thee, and I will cast up a rampart against thee, and raise up bulwarks to besiege thee.

Isaiah 37:33
Wherefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of the Assyrians: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow into it, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a trench about it.

Jeremiah 6:3
The shepherds shall come to her with their flocks: they have pitched their tents against her round about: every one shall feed them that are under his hand.

Jeremiah 6:6
For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hew down her trees, cast up a trench about Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited, all oppression is in the midst of her.

Ezekiel 4:2
And lay siege against it, and build forts, and cast up a mount, and set a camp against it, and place battering rams round about it.

Ezekiel 26:8
Thy daughters that are in the field, he shall kill with the sword: and he shall compass thee with forts, and shall cast up a mount round about: and he shall lift up the buckler against thee.

Daniel 9:26
And after sixty-two weeks Christ shall be slain: and the people that shall deny him shall not be his. And a people, with their leader, that shall come, shall destroy the city, and the sanctuary: and the end thereof shall be waste, and after the end of the war the appointed desolation.

Luke 19:42
If thou also hadst known, and that in this thy day, the things that are to thy peace: but now they are hidden from thy eyes.

Luke 21:20
And when you shall see Jerusalem compassed about with an army, then know that the desolation thereof is at hand.

Luke 19:42
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