THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW - Chapter 23 - Verse 38

Verse 38. 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 Barnes "Mt 24:1"

and following.

{y} "desolate" Zechariah 6:6