Bible verse
and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.
Luke 19:42 · BSB
The verses around it, from Luke 19.
38 “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
39 But some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples!”
40 “I tell you,” He answered, “if they remain silent, the very stones will cry out.”
41 As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it
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.
44 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.’”
KJV
Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things [which belong] unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
ASV
saying, If thou hadst known in this day, even thou, the things which belong unto peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
ERV
saying, If thou hadst known in this day, even thou, the things which belong unto peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
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