Isaiah 63:18
Thy holy people they have well nigh driven out, our adversaries have trodden down Thy sanctuary.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
19We are become as they over whom Thou never borest rule, as they that were not called by Thy name.
Cross References
Exodus 19:4Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto Myself.
Deuteronomy 26:19and to make thee high above all nations that He hath made, in praise, and in name, and in glory; and that thou mayest be a holy people unto the LORD thy God, as He hath spoken.
Psalms 79:1A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into Thine inheritance; they have defiled Thy holy temple; they have made Jerusalem into heaps.
Isaiah 64:9(64-8) Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever; behold, look, we beseech Thee, we are all Thy people.
Isaiah 64:11(64-10) Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised Thee, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
Lamentations 4:1How is the gold become dim! How is the most fine gold changed! The hallowed stones 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 →