Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 19:44

44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another: because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

It is a plain Prophecy of the final Destruction of Ierusalem, by the Roman Armies, which came to pass within less then forty years after. The cause of that dreadful judgment is assigned, because thou knewest not the time of thy Visitation. Gods visitations are either of Wrath or Mercy, of Wrath, Exod. 32.34. Levit. 26.16. Ier. 15.3. of Mercy Ier. 29.10. It is plain that our Saviour useth the term here in the latter not the former sense, and that by Gods Visitation of this People here, is meant his visiting them with his Prophets, by Iohn the Baptist, and by himself. Their not knowing of it, (here intended) was their not making use of it, not receiving, and imbracing the Gospel. The contempt of the Gospel is the great cause of all those Miseries which come upon People in this Life, or shall come upon them in that Life which is to come.

Marginal references: 1 King 9.7, 3. Mic. 3.12.; Matth. 24.2. Chap. 21.6.