Matthew 23:38

Good News Translation

And so your Temple will be abandoned and empty.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
See, your house is left to you desolate.

King James Version (1611)
Behold, your house is left vnto you desolate.

King James Version
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

English Standard Version
See, your house is left to you desolate.

New American Standard Bible
"Behold, your house is being left to you desolate!

New Century Version
Now your house will be left completely empty.

Amplified Bible
"Listen carefully: your house is being left to you desolate [completely abandoned by God and destitute of His protection]!

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Behold, your house is being left to you desolate!

Legacy Standard Bible
Behold, your house is being left to you desolate!

Berean Standard Bible
Look, your house is left to you desolate.

Contemporary English Version
And now your temple will be deserted.

Complete Jewish Bible
Look! God is abandoning your house to you, leaving it desolate.

Darby Translation
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate;

Easy-to-Read Version
Now your house will be left completely empty.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Beholde, your habitation shalbe left vnto you desolate,

George Lamsa Translation
Behold, your house will be left to you desolate.

Lexham English Bible
Behold, your house has been left to you desolate!

Literal Translation
Behold, "your house is left to you desolate." Jer. 22:5

American Standard Version
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

Bible in Basic English
See, your house is made waste.

Hebrew Names Version
Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

International Standard Version
Look! Your house is left to you deserted!

Etheridge Translation
Lo, your house is left unto you desolate.

Murdock Translation
Behold, your house is left to you desolate !

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Beholde, your house is left vnto you desolate.

English Revised Version
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

World English Bible
Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Behold your house is left unto you desolate.

Weymouth's New Testament
See, your house will now be left to you desolate!

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lo! youre hous schal be left to you desert.

Update Bible Version
Look, your house is left to you desolate.

Webster's Bible Translation
Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

New English Translation
Look, your house is left to you desolate!

New King James Version
See! Your house is left to you desolate;

New Living Translation
And now, look, your house is abandoned and desolate.

New Life Bible
See! Your house is empty.

New Revised Standard
See, your house is left to you, desolate.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Lo! your house is left to you;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold, your house shall be left to you, desolate.

Revised Standard Version
Behold, your house is forsaken and desolate.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Beholde youre habitacio shalbe lefte vnto you desolate.

Young's Literal Translation
Lo, left desolate to you is your house;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Beholde, youre habitacion shalbe left vnto you desolate.

Mace New Testament (1729)
know, that your habitation shall be soon turned into a desert.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Now your church will be deserted and full of tumbleweeds.

Contextual Overview

³⁴ And so I tell you that I will send you prophets and wise men and teachers; you will kill some of them, crucify others, and whip others in the synagogues and chase them from town to town. ³⁵ As a result, the punishment for the murder of all innocent people will fall on you, from the murder of innocent Abel to the murder of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar. ³⁶ I tell you indeed: the punishment for all these murders will fall on the people of this day! ³⁷ "Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets and stone the messengers God has sent you! How many times I wanted to put my arms around all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me! ³⁸ And so your Temple will be abandoned and empty. ³⁹ From now on, I tell you, you will never see me again until you say, ‘God bless him who comes in the name of the Lord.'"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Matthew 24:2, 2 Chronicles 7:20, 2 Chronicles 7:21, Psalms 69:24, Isaiah 64:10-12, Jeremiah 7:9-14, Daniel 9:26, Zechariah 11:1, Zechariah 11:2, Zechariah 11:6, Zechariah 14:1, Zechariah 14:2, Mark 13:14, Luke 13:35, Luke 19:43, Luke 19:44, Luke 21:6, Luke 21:20, Luke 21:24, Acts 6:13, Acts 6:14

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 21:15 - unto Jerusalem Psalms 55:9 - I have Psalms 69:25 - Let their Proverbs 1:24 - I have called Ecclesiastes 7:16 - destroy thyself Isaiah 5:9 - Of a truth Jeremiah 5:7 - How shall Lamentations 3:11 - he hath made Ezekiel 24:13 - because Zechariah 11:9 - I will Luke 14:24 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold your house is left unto you desolate. Signifying that the city in which they dwelt, where they had their ceiled houses, and stately palaces, would, in a little time, within the space of forty years, be destroyed, and become a desert; and the temple, formerly the house of God, but now only their's, and in which they trusted, would be abandoned by God, he would grant his presence no more in it; and the Messiah, the proprietor of it, and who was now in it, would then take his leave of it, and never more return to it; and that also should share the same fate as the city, and at the same time. Our Lord seems to have in view those passages in Jeremiah 12:7 and which the Jewish o writers understood of the temple. The author of the apocryphal the second book of Esdras has much such an expression as this:

"Thus saith the Almighty Lord, Your house is desolate, I will cast you out as the wind doth stubble.'' (2 Esdras 1:33)

o Targum & Kimchi in Jer. xii. 7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 24:0.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 23:38. 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. Matthew 23:21; see also Clarke on "Luke 13:35".