Isaiah 63:18
Your holy people possessed it but a little while. Our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
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In Context
19We have become like those over whom you never ruled, like those who were not called by your name.
Cross References
Exodus 19:4‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to myself.
Deuteronomy 26:19He will make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, in name, and in honour, and that you may be a holy people to the LORD your God, as he has spoken.
Psalms 79:1God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
Isaiah 64:9Don’t be furious, LORD. Don’t remember iniquity forever. Look and see, we beg you, we are all your people.
Isaiah 64:11Our holy and our beautiful house where our fathers praised you is burnt with fire. All our pleasant places are laid waste.
Lamentations 4:1How the gold has become dim! The most pure gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary 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 →