Your house. The temple. The house of worship of the Jews. The chief ornament of Jerusalem.

Desolate. About to be desolate, …

Your house—The word “desolate” is omitted in some of the best manuscripts. The words “your house” may refer either generally to th…

What a picture of pity and disappointed love the king's face must have presented when, with flowing tears, he spoke these words! It was the utteran…

St. John Chrysostom: The Lord next turns to address the city, desiring to instruct His listeners by this. "O Jerusalem, Jerusa…

This verse may allude to both Jer 12:7 and 22:5. “Your house” (GK 3875) in this context could refer to Jerusalem, to Israel, or to the temple in wh…

Behold, your house is left to you desolate. He threatens the destruction of the temple and the dissolution of the whole frame of civil gov…

Behold your house is left unto you desolate. Signifying that the city in which they dwelt, where they had their ceiled houses, and …

Our Lord declares the miseries the inhabitants of Jerusalem were about to bring upon themselves, but He does not mention the sufferings He was to u…

In this part, He recounts their cruelty, and He adds their earthly punishment. To begin with, He does the first thing; and secondly, He adds their …