Luke 19:43 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build a dirt wall around you, surrounding you, and hemming you in on every side.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For a time is coming upon you when your enemies will throw up a bank [with pointed stakes] about you and surround you and shut you in on every side. [Isa. 29:3; Jer. 6:6; Ezek. 4:2.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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,

Common English Bible

The time will come when your enemies will build fortifications around you, encircle you, and attack you from all sides.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For the days will overtake you. And your enemies will encircle you with a valley. And they will surround you and hem you in on every side.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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,

Luke 19:43 Cross References

Matthew 22:7

The king became furious and sent his army to destroy these murderers and burn their city.

Luke 19:42

saying, “If [only] you people realized today those things which [could] lead [you] to peace! But now they are [being] hidden from your sight.