Isaiah 63:18
Why have evil men gone over your holy place, so that it has been crushed under the feet of our haters?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
19We have become as those who were never ruled by you, on whom your name was not named.
Cross References
Exodus 19:4You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I took you, as on eagles' wings, guiding you to myself.
Deuteronomy 26:19And that he will make you high over all the nations he has made, in praise, in name, and in honour, and that you are to be a holy people to the Lord your God as he has said.
Psalms 79:1A Psalm. Of Asaph. O God, the nations have come into your heritage; they have made your holy Temple unclean; they have made Jerusalem a mass of broken walls.
Lamentations 4:1How dark has the gold become! how changed the best gold! the stones of the holy place are dropping out at the top 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 →