Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
Parallel translations
- WEB Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.
- BSB May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents.
- NKJV Let their dwelling place be desolate; Let no one live in their tents.
- NASB May their camp be desolated; May there be none living in their tents.
- NLT Let their homes become desolate and their tents be deserted.
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Quick answer
David prays that his enemies' dwelling become desolate and uninhabited. It is applied in the New Testament to the judgment on Judas.
Overview
David asks that the homes of the wicked be left empty and abandoned. Peter cites this verse concerning Judas, the betrayer of Christ, whose place became desolate (Acts 1:20). The verse thus illustrates the just end of those who set themselves against God's anointed, even as it warns against the betrayal of the Lord.
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Cross-references · 8
- Acts 1:20For 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.
- Matt 23:38Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
- Jer 7:12–14But 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.
- Isa 6:11Then 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,
- Luke 13:35Behold, 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.
- Matt 24:1–2And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
- 1 Kgs 9:8And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
- Isa 5:1Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
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