43For 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,
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And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. …
Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices. …
He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee.
And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.
The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 41-48)The great Ambassador from heaven is here making his public entry into Jerusalem, not to be respected there, but to be rejected ; he knew what a nest of vipers he was throwing himself into, and yet see here two instances of his love to that place and his concern for it. I. The tears he shed for the approaching ruin of the city (Luke 19:41): When he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over i…
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