Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
Let their habitation be desolate. Their temple was no longer to be the temple of the Lord, but their own habitation. So Christ quotes it, Matthew 23:38, "Behold, your (the Jews') house is left unto you desolate." See Dr. Brown's note-`deserted of its divine inhabitant,' What is said of Judas (Acts 1:20) applies to Judah and Jerusalem, whom he represented.