Matthew 23:38

King James Version

Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

Parallel Translations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

English Standard Version
See, your house is left to 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.

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

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

Contemporary English Version
And now your temple will be deserted.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

George Lamsa Translation
Behold, your house will be 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.

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

Good News Translation
And so your Temple will be abandoned and empty.

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

Hebrew Names Version
Behold, your house is 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

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.

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

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

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

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!

Contextual Overview

³⁴ Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: ³⁵ That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. ³⁶ Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. ³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! ³⁸ Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. ³⁹ For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh 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".