Matthew 23:38 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³⁸ Look, your house [i.e., the Jewish Temple] is being abandoned [by me (?)].

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁸ Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁸ Behold, your house is forsaken and desolate (abandoned and left destitute of God's help). [I Kings 9:7; Jer. 22:5.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁸ Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

Common English Bible

³⁸ Look, your house is left to you deserted.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁸ Behold, your house shall be abandoned to you, having been deserted.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁸ Behold, you house shall be left to you, desolate.

Matthew 23:38 Cross References

Matthew 24:2

He responded to them by saying, “Do you see all these structures? Truly I tell you, there will not be one stone left on another here that will not be thrown down.”

Mark 13:14

`But when you see that disgusting thing that causes total destruction [i.e., the Roman army. See Luke 21:20] standing where it ought not to be [i.e., surrounding the besieged city of Jerusalem], (let the reader understand [what is meant by this]), then those of you in Judea are to run away into the [nearby] mountains.

Luke 13:35

Look, your house [i.e., the Jewish Temple] is being abandoned [by me (?)]. You will not see me until [the time when] you will be saying, ‘Praise the One who is coming in the name of the Lord.’”

Luke 21:20

“So, when you see Jerusalem surrounded by [Roman] armies, then you will know that her total destruction is near.

Luke 21:24

And people will die by the sword and be led captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled on by the [unconverted] Gentiles [i.e., by the Romans and later by others] until the times of [domination by] the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Luke 21:6

“As for these things you are looking at, the time will come when there will not be one stone left on another here that will not be thrown down.”