JMNT(i)
17 Next He began teaching, and kept on saying, "Has it not been written, 'My house will continue being called a house of prayer to, for and amidst all the ethnic multitudes and nations (or: non-Jews; Gentiles; = pagans) '? [Isa. 56.7] "Yet you, yourselves, have made it ‘a cave of robbers (or: a den of highwaymen, bandits, pirates and violent ones).'" [cf Jer. 7:11-15; a "prophecy of... destruction" – Chilton, p 231]