Isaiah 63:18
For a little while Your holy people possessed, || Our adversaries have trodden down Your sanctuary.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
19We have been from of old, || You have not ruled over them, || Your Name is not called on them!
Cross References
Exodus 19:4You have seen that which I have done to the Egyptians, and [how] I carry you on eagles’ wings and bring you to Myself.
Deuteronomy 26:19so as to make you highest above all the nations whom He has made for a praise, and for a name, and for beauty, and for your being a holy people to your God YHWH, as He has spoken.”
Psalms 79:1A PSALM OF ASAPH. O God, nations have come into Your inheritance, || They have defiled Your holy temple, || They made Jerusalem become heaps,
Isaiah 64:9Do not be angry, O YHWH, very severely, || Nor remember iniquity forever, || Behold, look attentively, we implore You, || We [are] all Your people.
Isaiah 64:11Our holy and our beautiful house, || Where our fathers praised You, || Has become burned with fire, || And all our desirable things have become a ruin.
Lamentations 4:1[ALEPH-BET] How the gold has become dim, || Changed the best—the pure gold! Stones of the sanctuary are poured out || At the head of all out-places.
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 →