They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”
The great Ambassador from heaven is here making his public entry into Jerusalem, not to be respected there, but to be rejected; he knew what a nest of vipers he was throwing himself into, and yet see here two instances of his love to that place and his concern for it. I.
Commenting on Luke 19:41-48
Saying unto them, it is written,.... In Isa 56:7 my house is the house of prayer; built and devoted for that service: but ye have made it a den of thieves; which clause is not written in the above prophecy, but are the words of Christ referring to Jer 7:11.
Verse 44. (d) "shall lay thee even" (e) "they shall not leave" (f) "thou knowest not the time"