Isaiah 63:18
Thy holy people have possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
19We have become [like those] over whom thou never barest rule, those not called by thy name.
Cross References
Exodus 19:4Ye have seen what I have done to the Egyptians, and [how] I have borne you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself.
Deuteronomy 26:19so that he should make thee high above all the nations which he hath made, in praise and in name and in honour; and that thou shouldest be a holy people to Jehovah thy God, as he hath said.
Psalms 79:1{A Psalm of Asaph.} O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance: thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
Isaiah 64:9Be not wroth very sore, O Jehovah, neither remember iniquity for ever. Behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
Isaiah 64:11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt up with fire, and all our precious things are laid waste.
Lamentations 4:1How is the gold become dim! the most pure gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary poured out at the top of all the streets!
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 →