Matthew 23:38
Good News Translation
And so your Temple will be abandoned and empty.

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

Contemporary English Version
And now your temple will be deserted.

New American Bible
Behold, your house will be abandoned, desolate.

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

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Behold, your house shall be left to you, desolate.

Matthew 24:2 And he answering, said to them: Do you see all these things? Amen I say to you, there shall not be left here a stone upon a stone that shall not be destroyed.

2 Chronicles 7:20,21 I will pluck you up by the root out of my land which I have given you: and this house which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast away from before my face, and will make it a byword, and an example among all nations. . . .

Psalm 69:24 Pour out thy indignation upon them: and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

Isaiah 64:10-12 The city of thy sanctuary is become a desert, Sion is made a desert, Jerusalem is desolate. . . .

Jeremiah 7:9-14 To steal, to murder, to commit adultery, to swear falsely, to offer to Baalim, and to go after strange gods, which you know not. . . .

Daniel 9:26 And after sixty-two weeks Christ shall be slain: and the people that shall deny him shall not be his. And a people, with their leader, that shall come, shall destroy the city, and the sanctuary: and the end thereof shall be waste, and after the end of the war the appointed desolation.

Zechariah 11:1,2,6 Open thy gates, O Libanus, and let fire devour thy cedars. . . .

Zechariah 14:1,2 Behold the days of the Lord shall come, and thy spoils shall be divided in the midst of thee. . . .

Mark 13:14 And when you shall see the abomination of desolation, standing where it ought not (he that readeth let him understand): then let them that are in Judea flee unto the mountains.

Luke 13:35 Behold your house shall be left to you desolate. And I say to you that you shall not see me till the time come when you shall say: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

Luke 19:43,44 For the days shall come upon thee: and thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee and compass thee round and straiten thee on every side, . . .

Luke 21:6,20,24 These things which you see, the days will come in which there shall not be left a stone upon a stone that shall not be thrown down. . . .

Acts 6:13,14 And they set up false witnesses, who said: This man ceaseth not to speak words against the holy place and the law. . . .

Context
Lament over Jerusalem
37Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldst not? 38Behold, your house shall be left to you, desolate. 39For I say to you, you shall not see me henceforth till you say: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.…
Cross References
1 Kings 9:7
I will take away Israel from the face of the land which I have given them; and the temple which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb, and a byword among all people.

Psalm 69:25
Let their habitation be made desolate: and let there be none to dwell in their tabernacles.

Isaiah 5:9
These things are in my ears, saith the Lord of hosts: Unless many great and fair houses shall become desolate, without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 22:5
But if you will not hearken to these words: I swear by myself, saith the Lord, that this house shall become a desolation.

Zephaniah 3:6
I have destroyed the nations, and their towers are beaten down: I have made their ways desert, so that there is none that passeth by: their cities are desolate, there is not a man remaining, nor any inhabitant.

Matthew 23:37
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