MAT 23:38 Parallel Verse View

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Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, pink:genitive/possessor, cyan:dative/indirect object.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

AICNT Behold, your house is left to you [desolate].[fn]

23:38, desolate: Absent from some manuscripts.

OEB Verily, your house is left to you desolate!

WEBBE Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Look, your house is left to you desolate!

LSV Behold, your house is left to you desolate;

FBV Now look—your house[fn] is left abandoned, totally empty.

23:38 The word house may refer to the Temple.

TCNT Behold, your house is left to you [fn]desolate.

23:38 desolate ¦ — WH

T4T So listen to this: Your city [SYN] will soon become an uninhabited place.

LEB Behold, your house has been left to you desolate!

BBE See, your house is made waste.

Moff No Moff MAT book available

Wymth See, your house will now be left to you desolate!

ASV Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

DRA Behold, you house shall be left to you, desolate.

YLT Lo, left desolate to you is your house;

Drby Behold, your house is left unto you desolate;

RV Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

Wbstr Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

KJB-1769 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

KJB-1611 Behold, your house is left vnto you desolate.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps Beholde, your house is left vnto you desolate.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Gnva Beholde, your habitation shalbe left vnto you desolate,
(Behold, your habitation shall be left unto you desolate, )

Cvdl Beholde, youre habitacion shalbe left vnto you desolate.
(Behold, your(pl) habitacion shall be left unto you desolate.)

TNT Beholde youre habitacion shalbe lefte vnto you desolate.
(Behold your(pl) habitacion shall be left unto you desolate. )

Wycl Lo! youre hous schal be left to you desert.
(Lo! your(pl) house shall be left to you desert.)

Luth Siehe, euer Haus soll euch wüste gelassen werden.
(See, euer house should you wüste gelassen become.)

ClVg Ecce relinquetur vobis domus vestra deserta.[fn]
(Behold relinquetur to_you home vestra deserta. )

23.38 Relinquetur. Civitas auxilio Dei nudata suæ ditioni relinquetur, quæ bene derelicta est, cum a Deo derelinquitur.

23.38 Relinquetur. Civitas auxilio of_God nudata suæ ditioni relinquetur, which bene derelicta it_is, when/with from Deo derelinquitur.

UGNT ἰδοὺ, ἀφίεται ὑμῖν ὁ οἶκος ὑμῶν ἔρημος!
(idou, afietai humin ho oikos humōn eraʸmos!)

SBL-GNT ἰδοὺ ἀφίεται ὑμῖν ὁ οἶκος ὑμῶν ⸀ἔρημος.
(idou afietai humin ho oikos humōn ⸀eraʸmos.)

TC-GNT Ἰδού, ἀφίεται ὑμῖν ὁ οἶκος ὑμῶν [fn]ἔρημος.
(Idou, afietai humin ho oikos humōn eraʸmos. )

23:38 ερημος ¦ — WH

Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs, orange:accents differ (from our SR-GNT base).

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / exclamations

ἰδοὺ

behold

Here, the word behold draws the attention of the audience and asks them to listen carefully. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express behold with a word or phrase that asks the audience to listen, or you could draw the audience’s attention in another way. Alternate translation: [Listen] or [Pay attention:]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

ἀφίεται ὑμῖν ὁ οἶκος ὑμῶν ἔρημος

/is_being/_left ˱to˲_you_all the house ˱of˲_you_all desolate

Here Jesus could speaking: (1) of the city of Jerusalem as if it were a house that will be left to its people desolate. In this case, he means that the city will be destroyed so much that people will no longer live there. Alternate translation: [your city will be left to you like a desolate house] or [your city will be destroyed] (2) of the temple as if it were a house that will be left to its people desolate. In this case, he means that God will no longer be present in the temple. Alternate translation: [your temple will be left to you like a desolate house] or [God will abandon your temple]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

ἀφίεται & ὁ οἶκος ὑμῶν

/is_being/_left & the house ˱of˲_you_all

If your language does not use this passive form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. If you need to say who does the action, it is clear from the context that it is God. Alternate translation: [God will leave your house]

Note 4 topic: translate-tense

ἀφίεται

/is_being/_left

Jesus is using the present tense in order to refer to something that will happen in the future. He is doing this to show that the event will certainly happen. Alternate translation: [will be left]

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