Luke 19:43 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

For the days shall come upon you, when your enemies will cast up a bank about you and surround you, and hem you in on every side,

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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

Ecclesiastes 9:14

There was a little city with few men in it; and a great king came against it and besieged it, building great siegeworks against it.

Isaiah 37:33

“Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city, or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield, or cast up a siege mound against it.

Ezekiel 26:8

He will slay with the sword your daughters on the mainland; he will set up a siege wall against you, and throw up a mound against you, and raise a roof of shields against you.

Ezekiel 4:2

and put siegeworks against it, and build a siege wall against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it round about.

Matthew 22:7

The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

Luke 19:42

saying, “Would that even today you knew the things that make for peace! But now they are hid from your eyes.