Matthew 23:38
36 Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.
37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
Look, your house is left to you desolate.
39 For I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Look, your house is left to you desolate.
- KJV
- Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
- WEB
- Behold, your house is left to you desolate.
- ASV
- Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
- DARBY
- Behold, your house is left unto you desolate;
- BLB
- Behold, your⁺ house is left to you⁺ desolate!
- ÅB
- Og nå skal husene deres legges øde.
- OTB
- Se, huset deres blir etterlatt øde.
- B1930
- Se, eders hus skal lates eder øde.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 22:5
But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.’”
Read in contextLuke 13:35
Look, your house is left to you desolate. And I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’”
Read in contextLuke 21:24
They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
Read in context1 Kings 9:7
then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.
Read in contextActs 6:13–14
where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.
Read in contextLuke 21:6
“As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”
Read in contextLuke 21:20
But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near.
Read in contextLuke 19:43–44
For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side.
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