the days often used of troublous times, like the Latin tempora.

shall cast a trench about thee Rather, shall surround thee with a palisade, Isaiah 29:3-4; Isaiah 37:33, LXX. Literally fulfilled forty years afterwards at the siege of Jerusalem, when Titus surrounded the city first with a palisaded mound (vallumand agger),and then with a wall of masonry.

keep thee in on every side The blockade established was so terribly rigid that myriads of the Jews perished of starvation.

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