# Connecting Statement:

Jesus continues speaking.

# For

What follows is the reason for Jesus's sadness.

# the days will come upon you when your enemies

This indicates that they will experience difficult times. Some languages do not talk about time "coming." Alternate translation: "in the future these things will happen to you: Your enemies" or "soon you will endure troublesome times. Your enemies"

# you ... your

The word "you" is singular because Jesus is speaking to the city as he would to a woman. But if this would be unnatural in your language, you could use a plural form of "you" to refer to the people of the city. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-you]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-apostrophe]])

# barricade

This refers to a wall to keep the people from getting out of the city.