Isaiah 63:18 “For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemi…”

Isaiah 63:18

For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

World English Bible

Your holy people possessed it but a little while. Our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.

American Standard Version

Thy holy people possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

Geneva Bible 1599

The people of thine holinesse haue possessed it, but a litle while: for our aduersaries haue troden downe thy Sanctuarie.

Darby Translation

Thy holy people have possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

Young's Literal Translation

For a little while did Thy holy people possess, Our adversaries have trodden down Thy sanctuary.

Bible in Basic English

Why have evil men gone over your holy place, so that it has been crushed under the feet of our haters?

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Cross references

“people”

Isaiah 62:12 Exodus 19:4–6 Deuteronomy 7:6 Deuteronomy 26:19 Daniel 8:24 1 Peter 2:9

Isaiah 62:12 · BSB

And they will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of The LORD; and you will be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.

Exodus 19:4–6 · BSB

‘You have seen for yourselves what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.

Deuteronomy 7:6 · BSB

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 26:19 · BSB

that He will set you high in praise and name and honor above all the nations He has made, and that you will be a holy people to the LORD your God, as He has promised.

Daniel 8:24 · BSB

His power will be great, but it will not be his own. He will cause terrible destruction and succeed in whatever he does. He will destroy the mighty men along with the holy people.

1 Peter 2:9 · BSB

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

“our”

Psalm 74:3–7 Lamentations 1:10 Lamentations 4:1 Matthew 24:2 Revelation 11:2 Isaiah 64:11

Psalm 74:3–7 · BSB

Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed.

Lamentations 1:10 · BSB

The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary— those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.

Lamentations 4:1 · BSB

How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner.

Matthew 24:2 · BSB

“Do you see all these things?” He replied. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”

Revelation 11:2 · BSB

But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.

Isaiah 64:11 · BSB

Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

17Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.

19We have become like those You never ruled, like those not called by Your name.

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