Luke 19:43
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
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 King James Version (AKJV)
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 (ASV)
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,
Basic English Translation (BBE)
For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side,
Webster's Revision
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,
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,
English Revised Version (ERV)
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,
Definitions for Luke 19:43
Clarke's Luke 19:43 Bible Commentary
Cast a trench about thee - This was literally fulfilled when this city was besieged by Titus. Josephus gives a very particular account of the building of this wall, which he says was effected in three days, though it was not less than thirty-nine furlongs in circumference; and that, when this wall and trench were completed, the Jews were so enclosed on every side that no person could escape out of the city, and no provision could be brought in, so that they were reduced to the most terrible distress by the famine which ensued. The whole account is well worth the reader's attention. See Josephus, War, book v. chap. xxii. sec. 1, 2, 3.
Wesley's Luke 19:43 Bible Commentary
19:43 Thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee around - All this was exactly performed by Titus, the Roman general.