Isaiah 63:18
Thy holy people possessed [it] but a little while. Our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
19We have become as those over whom thou never bore rule, as those who were not called by thy name.
Cross References
Exodus 19:4Ye have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings, and brought you to myself.
Deuteronomy 26:19and to make thee high above all nations that he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor, and that thou may be a holy people to LORD thy God, as he has spoken.
Psalms 79:1O God, the nations have come into thine inheritance. They have defiled thy holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
Isaiah 64:9Be not angry very severely, O LORD, nor remember iniquity forever. Behold, look, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
Isaiah 64:11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire, and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
Lamentations 4:1How the gold has become dim, the most pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 63:16-19
Earnest Pleadings. ( b. c. 706.) 15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained? 16 Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O Lord , art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting. 17 O Lord , why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for… Read the whole commentary →