Matthew 23:38

Translations

King James Version (KJV)

Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

American King James Version (AKJV)

Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

American Standard Version (ASV)

Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

Basic English Translation (BBE)

See, your house is made waste.

Webster's Revision

Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

World English Bible

Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

English Revised Version (ERV)

Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

Bible > Matthew > Matthew 23 > Matthew 23:38

Clarke's Matthew 23:38 Bible Commentary

Behold, your house - Ο οικος, the temple: - this is certainly what is meant. It was once the Lord's temple, God's Own house; but now he says, Your temple or house - to intimate that God had abandoned it. See the note on Matthew 23:21; see also on Luke 13:35 (note).

Barnes's Matthew 23:38 Bible Commentary

Your house - The temple. The house of worship of the Jews. The chief ornament of Jerusalem.

Desolate - About to be desolate or destroyed. To be forsaken as a place of worship, and delivered into the hands of the Romans, and destroyed. See the notes at Matthew 24.

Wesley's Matthew 23:38 Bible Commentary

23:38 Behold your house — The temple, which is now your house, not God's: Is left unto you - Our Lord spake this as he was going out of it for the last time: Desolate - Forsaken of God and his Christ, and sentenced to utter destruction.