Isaiah 63:18
Thy holy people possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
19We are become as they over whom thou never barest 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 bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.
Deuteronomy 26:19and to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.
Psalms 79:1O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
Isaiah 64:9Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, look, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
Isaiah 64:11Our 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 pure gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the top 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 →