Isaiah 63:18

For a short time only, did thy holy people hold possession,—Our adversaries, trod down thy sanctuary!

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

17Wherefore shouldst thou suffer us to wander O Yahweh, from thy ways? Wherefore shouldst thou let us harden our heart past revering thee? Return thou for the sake of Thy servants, The tribes thou thyself hast inherited.

19We have become like those Over whom from age-past times, thou hast not ruled, Who have never been called by thy name!

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Cross References

Exodus 19:4Ye, have seen what I did unto the Egyptians,—And how I bare you upon wings of eagles, And brought you in unto myself:—

Deuteronomy 26:19and [hath avowed] that he will set thee on high above all the nations which he hath made, for praise, and for renown and for glory, and that thou shalt be a holy people unto Yahweh thy God as he hath spoken.

Psalms 79:1O God, nations, Have entered thine inheritance, Have profaned thy holy temple,—Have laid Jerusalem in heaps:

Isaiah 64:9Do not be indignant, O Yahweh so very greatly, Neither perpetually, do thou recall iniquity,—Lo! look around, we pray thee…thy people, are, we all.

Isaiah 64:11Our holy and our beautiful house Where our fathers praised thee, Hath become a conflagration,—And, all our delightful places, are in ruins!

Lamentations 4:1How is dimmed the gold! changed the most fine gold! Poured out are the stones of the sanctuary, 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 →

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