38Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
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But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 34-39)We have left the blind leaders fallen into the ditch, under Christ’s sentence, into the damnation of hell; let us see what will become of the blind followers, of the body of the Jewish church, and particularly Jerusalem. I. Jesus Christ designs yet to try them with the means of grace; I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes . The connection is strange; “ You are a generation of vipers…
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