For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side.
Parallel translations
- WEB 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,
- KJV 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,
- NKJV For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side,
- NASB For the days will come upon you when your enemies will put up a barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side,
- NLT Before long your enemies will build ramparts against your walls and encircle you and close in on you from every side.
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Quick answer
Jesus foretells that enemies will besiege and surround Jerusalem. He prophesies the coming judgment on the city.
Overview
This prediction was fulfilled in the Roman siege and destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. Jesus speaks as a prophet announcing the consequences of the nation's rejection of its Messiah. The accuracy of his words underscores both his authority and the seriousness of refusing him.
Cross-references & the web
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- Luke 21:20–24But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near.
- Isa 29:1–4Woe to you, O Ariel, the city of Ariel where David camped! Year upon year let your festivals recur.
- Ezek 4:2Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it on all sides.
- Ezek 26:8He will slaughter the villages of your mainland with the sword; he will set up siege works against you, build a ramp to your walls, and raise his shields against you.
- Jer 6:3–6Shepherds and their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents all around her, each tending his own portion:
- Matt 23:37–39O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
- Dan 9:26–27Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.
- Isa 37:33So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it.
- Deut 28:49–58The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,
- 1 Th 2:15–16who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,
- Ps 37:12–13The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,
- Matt 22:7The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.
- Mark 13:14–20So when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
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