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Isaiah 63:18

Your Temple belonged to us for a little while, but then our enemies invaded and destroyed it.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

17Lord, why do you make us wander from your ways, and make us stubborn so we don't respect you? Come back to us for the sake of your servants, the tribes that belong to you.

19We were yours from ancient times, but we've ended up like people you've never ruled, never identified as yours.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:4‘You saw for yourselves what I did to the Egyptians, and how I carried you on eagles' wings, how I brought you to myself.

Deuteronomy 26:19He has announced that he will give you greater praise and reputation and honor than any other nation he has made. He has announced that you will be a holy people to the Lord your God, as he promised.

Psalms 79:1God, heathen nations have invaded your land. They have defiled your holy Temple. They have turned Jerusalem into heaps of rubble.

Isaiah 64:9Please limit your anger, Lord, and don't remember our sins forever. Look at us, and see that we are all your people.

Isaiah 64:11Our beautiful, holy Temple where our forefathers praised you has been burned down, and all that we treasured has been destroyed.

Lamentations 4:1How gold has tarnished! Even pure gold has lost its shine! Jewels from the Temple have been scattered on every street corner.

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 →

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