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Psalm 69:25

Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.

23Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see. Let their backs be continually bent.
24Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.
25Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.
26For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
27Charge them with crime upon crime. Don’t let them come into your righteousness.
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Empty tents are the requested judgment here: a sufferer asks God to leave persecutors’ homes without inhabitants, exposing the severity of this prayer against them.

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Where else Scripture says this

9 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Acts 1:20For it is written in the book of Psalms, ‘Let his habitation be made desolate. Let no one dwell in it;’ and, ‘Let another take his office.’Acts quotes the psalm’s plea for a desolate habitation, changing the plural enemies to a single person.
Matthew 23:38Behold, your house is left to you desolate.Both describe a dwelling left desolate, though the psalm requests this judgment and Matthew announces it.
Jeremiah 7:12–14“But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.Both connect a dwelling place with judgment, while Jeremiah names Israel’s wickedness as the reason for what happened at Shiloh.
Isaiah 6:11Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, houses without man, the land becomes utterly waste,Both describe homes without inhabitants, with Isaiah extending the desolation to cities and the land.
Luke 13:35Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’”The psalm asks for deserted dwellings, while Luke declares a house desolate; both speak of desolation reaching a home.
Job 5:3I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.Both direct a curse toward someone’s habitation: the psalm targets persecutors, while Job’s speaker names the foolish.
Matthew 24:1–2Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.Both mention buildings or dwellings; the supplied Matthew verse describes the temple without stating the desolation sought in the psalm.
1 Kings 9:8Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has the LORD done this to this land and to …Both connect a house or habitation with God’s judgment, while Kings describes the astonishment of those passing by.
Isaiah 5:1Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.Both mention places associated with people, but Isaiah’s fruitful vineyard shares little with the psalm’s plea for deserted homes.
Where this verse fits

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Encouragement

The requested judgment is severe: homes without inhabitants. This is a plea for God to judge; it grants no permission to drive people from their homes.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).