Luke 19:43 — Compare Translations

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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.]

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

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.]

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

For the days will come on you when your enemies will build a barricade around you, surround you, and hem you in on every side.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

for days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall make a palisaded mound about thee, and shall close thee around, and keep thee in on every side,

English EASY 2024

As a result, days of trouble will come to you. Your enemies will build a wall around the city. They will shut you in completely and they will not let you leave.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

A time is coming when your enemies will build a wall around you and hold you in on all sides.

For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side

English GNT (Good News Translation)

The time will come when your enemies will surround you with barricades, blockade you, and close in on you from every side.

English God's Word - GW 1995

The time will come when enemy armies will build a wall to surround you and close you in on every side.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

For the days will come on you when your enemies will build an embankment against you, surround you, and hem you in on every side.

English KJV 1611

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,

English LSB

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side,

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you and surround you, and press you in on every side.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

"For the days will come upon you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side,

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

For the days are coming upon you when your enemies will raise a palisade against you; they will encircle you and hem you in on all sides.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

"The days will come when your enemies will arrive. They will build a wall of dirt up against your city. They will surround you and close you in on every side.

English NIV

The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side.

English NKJ 1982

For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side,

English NLT

Before long your enemies will build ramparts against your walls and encircle you and close in on you.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

Indeed, the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up ramparts around you and surround you, and hem you in on every side.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

For the day is soon coming when your enemies will surround you, hem you in on every side, and lay siege to you.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

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,

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

Your enemies will pile up earth against your walls and encircle you and close in on you,

English Tyndale 1537

For the days shall come upon thee; And(that thy) thine enemies shall compass thee about with a bank. And shall besiege thee round about,(cast a bank about thee, and compass thee round) and keep thee in on every side;