Yesaya 6:11-12

6:11 I replied, “How long, sovereign master?” He said,

“Until cities are in ruins and unpopulated,

and houses are uninhabited,

and the land is ruined and devastated,

6:12 and the Lord has sent the people off to a distant place,

and the very heart of the land is completely abandoned. ¹ 

Matius 23:38

23:38 Look, your house is left to you desolate!

¹ tn Heb “and great is the abandonment in the midst of the land.”