Luke 19:44

⁴² and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.

⁴³ For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side.

They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”

⁴⁵ Then Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling there.

⁴⁶ He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be a house of prayer.’ But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”
KJV: 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.
WEB: and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”
ASV: 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.
DARBY: and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children in thee; and shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone: because thou knewest not the season of thy visitation.
BLB: And they will level you to the ground, and your children in you, and they will not leave a stone upon a stone in you, because you did not know the season of your visitation.”

ÅB: og slå deg til jorden og dine barn i deg, og ikke levne stein på stein i deg, fordi du ikke kjente din besøkelses tid.
OTB: De skal jevne deg med jorden, du og dine barn innenfor dine murer. De skal ikke la stein bli tilbake på stein, fordi du ikke kjente din besøkelsestid.”
B1930: og slå dig til jorden og dine barn i dig, og ikke levne sten på sten i dig, fordi du ikke kjente din besøkelses tid.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Luke 21:6
“As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”
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Luke 13:34–35
O 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!
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Luke 19:42
and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.
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1 Peter 2:12
Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.
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Matthew 23:37–38
O 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!
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John 3:18–21
Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
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Lamentations 1:8
Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.
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Luke 1:68
“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has visited and redeemed His people.
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