Isaiah 63:18
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New International Version (©2011)
For a little while your people possessed your holy place, but now our enemies have trampled down your sanctuary.

New Living Translation (©2007)
How briefly your holy people possessed your holy place, and now our enemies have destroyed it.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Your holy people held possession for a little while; our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for a little while, Our adversaries have trodden it down.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Your holy people had a possession for a little while, but our enemies have trampled down Your sanctuary.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Your holy people took possession for a little while, but now our enemies have trampled down your sanctuary.

NET Bible (©2006)
For a short time your special nation possessed a land, but then our adversaries knocked down your holy sanctuary.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Your holy people possessed the land for a little while. Our enemies have trampled on your holy place.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
The people of your holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.

American King James Version
The people of your holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.

American Standard Version
Thy holy people possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They have possessed thy holy people as nothing: our enemies have trodden down thy sanctuary.

Darby Bible Translation
Thy holy people have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

English Revised Version
Thy holy people possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

Webster's Bible Translation
The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

World English Bible
Your holy people possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.

Young's Literal Translation
For a little while did Thy holy people possess, Our adversaries have trodden down Thy sanctuary.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

63:15-19 They beseech him to look down on the abject condition of their once-favoured nation. Would it not be glorious to his name to remove the veil from their hearts, to return to the tribes of his inheritance? The Babylonish captivity, and the after-deliverance of the Jews, were shadows of the events here foretold. The Lord looks down upon us in tenderness and mercy. Spiritual judgments are more to be dreaded than any other calamities; and we should most carefully avoid those sins which justly provoke the Lord to leave men to themselves and to their deceiver. Our Redeemer from everlasting is thy name; thy people have always looked upon thee as the God to whom they might appeal. The Lord will hear the prayers of those who belong to him, and deliver them from those not called by his name.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 18. - The people of thy holiness; or, thy holy people (comp. Isaiah 62:9; Isaiah 63:15: 64:11). Some critics read har, "mountain," instead of ' am, "people," and translate, "But for a little while have they" (i.e. thy servants) "had possession of thy holy mountain." The general meaning is the same in either case. "Israel, God's people, has held Palestine but for a little while" - a few centuries - and now the heathen have been allowed to make themselves masters of it, (comp. Ezra 10:8).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while,.... Either the land of Canaan, which the Jews, the Lord's holy people, whom he had separated from others, possessed about fourteen hundred years, which was but a little while in comparison of "for ever", as was promised; or they enjoyed it but a little while in peace and quiet, being often disturbed by their neighbours; or else the sanctuary, the temple, as it is to be supplied from the next clause, which stood but little more than four hundred years:

our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary; the temple; the first temple was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar; and the second temple by the Romans; and Antiochus, and Pompey, and others, profaned it, by treading in it.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

18. people of … holiness—Israel dedicated as holy unto God (Isa 62:12; De 7:6).

possessed—namely, the Holy Land, or Thy "sanctuary," taken from the following clause, which is parallel to this (compare Isa 64:10, 11; Ps 74:6-8).

thy—an argument why God should help them; their cause is His cause.

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Prayer for Mercy
…17O LORD, why have you made us to err from your ways, and hardened our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance. 18The people of your holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary. 19We are yours: you never bore rule over them; they were not called by your name.

Luke 21:24 They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
Leviticus 26:31 I will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings.
Psalm 74:3 Turn your steps toward these everlasting ruins, all this destruction the enemy has brought on the sanctuary.
Isaiah 63:19 We are yours from of old; but you have not ruled over them, they have not been called by your name.
Isaiah 64:11 Our holy and glorious temple, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned with fire, and all that we treasured lies in ruins.
Jeremiah 12:10 Many shepherds will ruin my vineyard and trample down my field; they will turn my pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.
Daniel 8:13 Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to him, "How long will it take for the vision to be fulfilled--the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, the surrender of the sanctuary and the trampling underfoot of the LORD's people?"
Amos 7:9 "The high places of Isaac will be destroyed and the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined; with my sword I will rise against the house of Jeroboam."