Luke 19:44 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁴⁴ They will throw you and your children, [who are] within your walls, to the ground and they will not allow one stone to remain on top of another in your city because you did not recognize that [God was] visiting you.” [Note: This “visitation” refers either to the redemption which they had rejected or to the punishment of the siege and destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70].

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁴ and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁴ And they will dash you down to the ground, you [Jerusalem] and your children within you; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, [all] because you did not come progressively to recognize and know and understand [from observation and experience] the time of your visitation [that is, when God was visiting you, the time in which God showed Himself gracious toward you and offered you salvation through Christ].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁴ and shall dash thee to the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

Common English Bible

⁴⁴ They will crush you completely, you and the people within you. They won’t leave one stone on top of another within you, because you didn’t recognize the time of your gracious visit from God.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁴ And they will knock you down to the ground, with your sons who are in you. And they will not leave stone upon stone within you, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁴ And 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.

Luke 19:44 Cross References

Matthew 24:2

He responded to them by saying, “Do you see all these structures? Truly I tell you, there will not be one stone left on another here that will not be thrown down.”

Mark 13:2

And Jesus responded to him, “Do you see these huge buildings? There will not be one stone left on another here that will not be thrown down.”

Luke 1:68

“May the Lord be praised, [who is] the God of the Israelites, for He has come to [the aid of] His people and bought them back [i.e., from bondage].

Luke 1:78

because of God’s merciful compassion. Therefore, the morning sun from above will arise

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.

Luke 21:6

“As for these things you are looking at, the time will come when there will not be one stone left on another here that will not be thrown down.”

1 Peter 2:12

You should live such good lives before [unconverted] Gentiles, so that even though they accuse you of being evildoers, by seeing your good deeds, they will [be led to] honor God [for you] on the day He visits us again [i.e., to bring judgment].