JMNT
(i)
46 while saying to them, "It has been written and presently stands on record, 'And My House will continue being a house of prayer,' [
Isa. 56:7]
yet you people make it a ‘cave of robbers (or: a den for highwaymen).’
" [
Jer. 7:11; comment: this is the reason for the prophecy of vss. 43-44]