John Gill Commentary Psalms 69:25

"Let their habitation be desolate; Let none dwell in their tents." — Psalms 69:25 (ASV)

Let their habitation be desolate
Which is applied to Judas, (Acts 1:20) ; but not to the exclusion of others; for it must be understood of the habitations of others; even of their princes and nobles, their chief magistrates, high priest and other priests, scribes, and doctors of the law: for the word may be rendered, "their palace" or "castle" ^F11 , as it is by some; and so may denote the houses of their principal men, the members of their sanhedrim; their houses great and fair, of which there were many in Jerusalem when it was destroyed; see (Isaiah 5:9) ; as well as the habitations of the meaner sort of people, which all became desolate at that time;

and particularly their house, the temple, which was like a palace or castle, built upon a mountain. This was left desolate, as our Lord foretold it would, (Matthew 23:38) ;

[and] let none dwell in their tents ;
the city of Jerusalem was wholly destroyed and not a house left standing in it, nor an inhabitant of it; it was laid even with the ground, ploughed up, and not one stone left upon another, (Luke 19:44) .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F11: (Mtryj) "palatium eorum", Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, Cocceius, Michaelis; "castella eorum", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "palatium vel casteilum eorum", Gejerus; so Ainsworth.