For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close 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,
- BSB For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem 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
Cross-references · 13
- Luke 21:20–24“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is at hand.
- Isa 29:1–4Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;
- Ezek 4:2Lay siege against it, build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it. Also set camps against it and plant battering rams against it all around.
- Ezek 26:8He shall kill your daughters in the field with the sword; and he shall make forts against you, and cast up a mound against you, and raise up the buckler against you.
- Jer 6:3–6Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her all around; they shall feed everyone in his place.”
- Matt 23:37–39“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!
- Dan 9:26–27After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and its end shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined.
- Isa 37:33Therefore Yahweh says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.
- Deut 28:49–58Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; 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, and didn’t please God, and are contrary to all men;
- Ps 37:12–13The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.
- Matt 22:7When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
- Mark 13:14–20But when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains,
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