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25Let their habitation be desolate{H8737)}; and let none dwell{H8802)} in their tents.
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For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel. …
And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. …
Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-29)These imprecations are not David’s prayers against his enemies, but prophecies of the destruction of Christ’s persecutors, especially the Jewish nation, which our Lord himself foretold with tears, and which was accomplished about forty years after the death of Christ. The first two verses of this paragraph are expressly applied to the judgments of God upon the unbelieving Jews by the apostle ( Ps.…
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