Luke 19:42

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
saying, “If you knew

King James Version (1611)
Saying, If thou hadst knowen, euen thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong vnto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

King James Version
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.

English Standard Version
saying, "Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

New American Standard Bible
saying, "If you had known on this day, even you, the conditions for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.

New Century Version
saying, "I wish you knew today what would bring you peace. But now it is hidden from you.

Amplified Bible
saying, "If [only] you had known on this day [of salvation], even you, the things which make for peace [and on which peace depends]! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
saying, "If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.

Legacy Standard Bible
saying, "If you knew in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.

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

Contemporary English Version
and said: It is too bad that today your people don't know what will bring them peace! Now it is hidden from them.

Complete Jewish Bible
saying, "If you only knew today what is needed for shalom! But for now it is hidden from your sight.

Darby Translation
saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, even at least in this thy day, the things that are for thy peace: but now they are hid from thine eyes;

Easy-to-Read Version
and said, "I wish you knew today what would bring you peace. But it is hidden from you now.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Saying, O if thou haddest euen knowen at the least in this thy day those things, which belong vnto thy peace! but nowe are they hid from thine eyes.

George Lamsa Translation
And he said, If you had only known those who are concerned in your peace, even in this your day! but now they are hidden from your eyes.

Good News Translation
saying, "If you only knew today what is needed for peace! But now you cannot see it!

Lexham English Bible
saying, "If you had known on this day—even you—the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

Literal Translation
saying, If you had known, even you, even at least in this day of yours, the things for your peace! But now they were hidden from your eyes.

American Standard Version
saying, If thou hadst known in this day, even thou, the things which belong unto peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

Bible in Basic English
Saying, If you, even you, had knowledge today, of the things which give peace! but you are not able to see them.

Hebrew Names Version
saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your shalom! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.

International Standard Version
saying, "If you had only known today what could have brought you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.

Etheridge Translation
If thou hadst known these things which are for thy peace, and in this thy day ! But now they are hidden from thine eyes.

Murdock Translation
and said: O, hadst thou known the things that are of thy peace, at least in this thy day: but now they are hidden from thy eyes.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Saying: If thou haddest knowen those thynges whiche belong vnto thy peace, euen in this thy day: But nowe are they hyd from thyne eyes.

English Revised Version
saying, If thou hadst known in this day, even thou, the things which belong unto peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

World English Bible
saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
saying, O that thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day the things that are for thy peace. But now they are hid from thine eyes.

Weymouth's New Testament
"O that at this time thou hadst known--yes even thou--what makes peace possible! But now it is hid from thine eyes.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and wepte on it, and seide, For if thou haddist knowun, thou schuldist wepe also; for in this dai the thingis ben in pees to thee, but now thei ben hid fro thin iyen.

Update Bible Version
saying, If you had known in this day, even you, the things which belong to peace! but now they are hid from your eyes.

Webster's Bible Translation
Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things [which belong] to thy peace! but now they are hid from thy eyes.

New English Translation
saying, "If you had only known on this day, even you, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

New King James Version
saying, "If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

New Living Translation
"How I wish today that you of all people would understand the way to peace. But now it is too late, and peace is hidden from your eyes.

New Life Bible
He said, "If you had only known on this great day the things that make peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

New Revised Standard
saying, "If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If thou hadst got to know, in this day, even thou, the conditions of peace… But, now, are they hid from thine eyes:

Douay-Rheims Bible
If thou also hadst known, and that in this thy day, the things that are to thy peace: but now they are hidden from thy eyes.

Revised Standard Version
saying, "Would that even today you knew the things that make for peace! But now they are hid from your eyes.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
sayinge: Yf thou haddest dest knowen those thinges which belonge vn thy peace eve at this thy tyme. But now are they hydde from thyne eyes.

Young's Literal Translation
saying -- `If thou didst know, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things for thy peace; but now they were hid from thine eyes.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and sayde: Yf thou knewest what were for yi peace, thou shuldest remebre it euen in this present daye of thine. But now is it hyd from thine eyes.

Mace New Testament (1729)
in these words, "O that thou hadst consider'd, at least in this very day, the opportunity you had of being happy! but now alas! it is vanish'd from your eyes."

Simplified Cowboy Version
He said, "You, Jerusalem, have cried out to God for help and he has answered your prayers. But now it is too late, and you cannot see the gift you've been given.

Contextual Overview

⁴¹When the city came into view, he wept over it. "If you had only recognized this day, and everything that was good for you! But now it's too late. In the days ahead your enemies are going to bring up their heavy artillery and surround you, pressing in from every side. They'll smash you and your babies on the pavement. Not one stone will be left intact. All this because you didn't recognize and welcome God's personal visit." ⁴⁵Going into the Temple he began to throw out everyone who had set up shop, selling everything and anything. He said, "It's written in Scripture, My house is a house of prayer; You have turned it into a religious bazaar." ⁴⁷From then on he taught each day in the Temple. The high priests, religion scholars, and the leaders of the people were trying their best to find a way to get rid of him. But with the people hanging on every word he spoke, they couldn't come up with anything.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

If: Deuteronomy 5:29, Deuteronomy 32:29, Psalms 81:13, Isaiah 48:18, Ezekiel 18:31, Ezekiel 18:32, Ezekiel 33:11

in this: Luke 19:44, Psalms 32:6, Psalms 95:7, Psalms 95:8, Isaiah 55:6, John 12:35, John 12:36, 2 Corinthians 6:1, 2 Corinthians 6:2

the things: Luke 1:77-79, Luke 2:10-14, Luke 10:5, Luke 10:6, Acts 10:36, Acts 13:46, Hebrews 3:7, Hebrews 3:13, Hebrews 3:15, Hebrews 10:26-29, Hebrews 12:24-26

but: Isaiah 6:9, Isaiah 6:10, Isaiah 29:10-14, Isaiah 44:18, Matthew 13:14, Matthew 13:15, John 12:38-41, Acts 28:25-27, Romans 11:7-10, 2 Corinthians 3:14-16, 2 Corinthians 4:3, 2 Corinthians 4:4, 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12

Reciprocal: Genesis 6:6 - grieved Genesis 37:14 - see whether it be well with Genesis 41:16 - peace Deuteronomy 31:29 - and evil Judges 21:6 - repented them 2 Samuel 3:32 - lifted 1 Chronicles 4:10 - Oh that Esther 8:6 - For how Job 18:20 - his day Psalms 35:14 - I behaved Psalms 45:5 - sharp Psalms 119:53 - horror Psalms 147:13 - blessed Proverbs 1:22 - ye simple Ecclesiastes 8:6 - therefore Ecclesiastes 9:12 - man Song of Solomon 2:13 - Arise Isaiah 27:5 - let him Isaiah 48:22 - General Isaiah 49:5 - Israel Isaiah 65:2 - spread Jeremiah 4:19 - My bowels Jeremiah 13:17 - my soul Ezekiel 4:2 - lay Hosea 6:4 - what Hosea 7:1 - I would Hosea 11:8 - How shall I give Zephaniah 3:7 - Surely Zechariah 7:13 - as Matthew 21:19 - Let Matthew 22:7 - he was Luke 4:19 - General Luke 12:56 - that Luke 13:3 - ye shall Luke 13:34 - Jerusalem Luke 19:27 - General John 5:34 - that Acts 13:41 - for Acts 26:29 - that not Romans 2:10 - and peace Romans 5:1 - we have 1 Corinthians 13:6 - Rejoiceth not 1 Thessalonians 2:16 - for

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Saying, if thou hadst, known, even thou,.... As well as other cities; or who hast been so long a flourishing city, the metropolis of the nation, the seat of the ancient kings of Judah; yea, the city of the great God, the place of divine worship, whither the tribes came up, time after time, to serve the Lord; a city so highly honoured of God and man: or, who hast despised the messages of the servants of God, mocked and misused the prophets in time past, beat one, killed another, and stoned another: if such a city, after all this, had but known its true interest,

at least in this thy day; the day of thy visitation, the last day thou art to have, though it is so late:

the things [which belong] unto thy peace; meaning, not peace with God, and the things belonging, or conducing to that, which are not men's works of righteousness, nor tears of repentance, nor even faith itself, but the obedience and righteousness, the blood, sacrifice and death of Christ; nor spiritual peace, or internal peace of conscience, which comes in a Gospel way, through believing, in a course of obedience, and all from Christ, the peacemaker, and peace giver; nor eternal peace hereafter, which the grace of God gives a meetness for, and the righteousness of Christ a right unto; the knowledge of all which is not natural to men, or to be obtained of themselves, but is the gift of God's grace, and the operation of his Spirit: but supposing such a peace, and such things relating to it, were intended, nothing more can be inferred from hence, than that if the Jews had known these things, they had been happy; and since they had the means of knowing them, they were, of all men, inexcusable; and that Christ, as man, and one of their nation, and as a minister of the circumcision, had a passionate concern for their welfare: but not that these Jews, or any men, can of themselves, and without the unfrustrable grace of God working upon their hearts, and enlightening their understanding, know these things; or that Christ acted any insincere part in wishing for these things for them, as man, and a minister of the word, when he knew, as God, it was not consistent with the will of God that they should have them; since Christ, as man, sometimes earnestly prayed for that, which he, as God, knew could not be, as in the case of his own sufferings and death; nor is this irreconcilable to his dying intentionally only for those who are actually saved: but after all, these words are, only spoken of Jerusalem, and the inhabitants of that city, and not of all mankind, and regard only their temporal peace and welfare, whose destruction Christ knew was near at hand; and of which he afterwards speaks in the following verses:

but now they are hid from thine eyes; their eyes were blinded; they were given up to a judicial blindness, and hardness of heart; a spirit of slumber and stupidity had seized them; they could not discern the signs of the times and so disbelieved Jesus as the Messiah, and rejected him as such; whom, had they received only in a notional way, though they had not believed in him spiritually, to the saving of their souls, they would have been secured from outward calamities, and would have enjoyed peace and prosperity, and the things belonging to it our Lord speaks of. Christ alludes to the name of Jerusalem, which signifies the vision of peace; or they shall see peace; but her name and case now did not agree. His wish is the same the Psalmist encourages in Psalms 122:6 which, in the Septuagint version, is rendered, "pray for the things" that belong "to the peace Jerusalem".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He wept over it - Showing his compassion for the guilty city, and his strong sense of the evils that were about to come upon it. See the notes at Matthew 23:37-39. As he entered the city he passed over the Mount of Olives. From that mountain there was a full and magnificent view of the city. See the notes at Matthew 21:1. The view of the splendid capital - the knowledge of its crimes - the remembrance of the mercies of God toward it - the certainty that it might have been spared if it had received the prophets and himself - the knowledge that it was about to put “him,” their long-expected Messiah, to death, and “for” that to be given up to utter desolation - affected his heart, and the triumphant King and Lord of Zion wept! Amid all “his” prosperity, and all the acclamations of the multitude, the heart of the Redeemer of the world was turned from the tokens of rejoicing to the miseries about to come on a guilty people. Yet they “might” have been saved. If thou hadst known, says he, even thou, with all thy guilt, the things that make for thy peace; if thou hadst repented, had been righteous, and had received the Messiah; if thou hadst not stained thy hands with the blood of the prophets, and shouldst not with that of the Son of God, then these terrible calamities would not come upon thee. But it is too late. The national wickedness is too great; the cup is full: mercy is exhausted; and Jerusalem, with all her pride and splendor, the glory of her temple, and the pomp of her service, “must perish!”

For the days shall come ... - This took place under Titus, the Roman general, 70 a.d., about thirty years after this was spoken.

Cast a trench about thee - The word “trench” now means commonly a “pit or ditch.” When the Bible was translated, it meant also “earth thrown up to defend a camp” (Johnson’s “Dictionary”). This is the meaning of the original here. It is not a pit or large “ditch,” but a pile of earth, stones, or wood thrown up to guard a camp, and to defend it from the approach of an enemy. This was done at the siege of Jerusalem. Josephus informs us that Titus, in order that he might compel the city to surrender by “famine,” built a wall around the whole circumference of the city. This wall was nearly 5 miles in length, and was furnished with thirteen castles or towers. This work was completed with incredible labor in ten days. The professed design of this wall was “to keep” the city “in on every side.” Never was a prophecy more strikingly accomplished.

Shall lay thee even with the ground ... - This was literally done. Titus caused a plow to pass over the place where the temple stood. See the notes at Matthew 24:0. All this was done, says Christ, because Jerusalem knew not the time of its visitation - that is, did not know, and “would not” know, that the Messiah had come. “His coming” was the time of their merciful visitation. That time had been predicted, and invaluable blessings promised as the result of his advent; but they would not know it. They rejected him, they put him to death, and it was just that they should be destroyed.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 42. The things which belong unto thy peace!] It is very likely that our Lord here alludes to the meaning of the word Jerusalem, ירושלים from ירה yereh, he shall see, and שלום shalom, peace or prosperity. Now, because the inhabitants of it had not seen this peace and salvation, because they had refused to open their eyes, and behold this glorious light of heaven which shone among them, therefore he said, Now they are hidden from thine eyes, still alluding to the import of the name.