Matthew 23:38 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

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.

Matthew 23:38

38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.