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

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

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

Berean Standard Bible
For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.

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

New King James Version
Your holy people have possessed it but a little while; Our adversaries have trodden down Your sanctuary.

New American Standard Bible
Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for a little while, Our adversaries have trampled it down.

NASB 1995
Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for a little while, Our adversaries have trodden it down.

NASB 1977
Thy holy people possessed Thy sanctuary for a little while, Our adversaries have trodden it down.

Legacy Standard Bible
Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for a little while; Our adversaries have trodden it down.

Amplified Bible
Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for [only] a little while; Our adversaries have trampled it down.

Christian Standard Bible
Your holy people had a possession for a little while, but our enemies have trampled down your sanctuary.

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

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
A little one shall inherit the people of your holiness. Oppressors have trodden upon your holy place

Brenton Septuagint Translation
that we may inherit a small part of thy holy mountain.

Contemporary English Version
For a little while, your temple belonged to us; and now our enemies have torn it down.

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

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

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

Good News Translation
We, your holy people, were driven out by our enemies for a little while; they trampled down your sanctuary.

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

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thy holy people they have well nigh driven out, Our adversaries have trodden down Thy sanctuary.

Literal Standard Version
For a little while Your holy people possessed, | Our adversaries have trodden down Your sanctuary.

Majority Standard Bible
For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.

New American Bible
Why have the wicked invaded your holy place, why have our enemies trampled your sanctuary?

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

New Revised Standard Version
Your holy people took possession for a little while; but now our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.

New Heart English Bible
Your holy people possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your 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.

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Context
A Prayer for Mercy
17Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage. 18For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary. 19We have become like those You never ruled, like those not called by Your name.…

Cross References
Luke 21:24
They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Leviticus 26:31
I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.

Psalm 74:3
Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed.

Isaiah 63:19
We have become like those You never ruled, like those not called by Your name.

Isaiah 64:11
Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.

Jeremiah 12:10
Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned 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 until the fulfillment of the vision of the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, and the surrender of the sanctuary and of the host to be trampled?"


Treasury of Scripture

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

people

Isaiah 62:12
And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.

Exodus 19:4-6
Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself…

Deuteronomy 7:6
For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

our

Isaiah 64:11,12
Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste…

Psalm 74:3-7
Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary…

Lamentations 1:10
The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.

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(18) The people of thy holiness . . .--Better, For a little while have they possessed thy sanctuary, or, with a various reading, thy holy mountain. The plea is addressed to Jehovah, on the ground of His promise that the inheritance was to be an everlasting one. Compared with that promise, the period of possession, from Joshua and David to the fall of the monarchy, was but as a "little while." (Comp. Psalm 90:4.) The seeming failure of the promise was aggravated by the fact that the enemies of Israel had trodden down the sanctuary.

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).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For a short while
לַמִּצְעָ֕ר (lam·miṣ·‘ār)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4705: Petty, a short

Your people
עַם־ (‘am-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

possessed
יָרְשׁ֖וּ (yā·rə·šū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 3423: To occupy, to seize, to rob, to inherit, to expel, to impoverish, to ruin

Your holy place,
קָדְשֶׁ֑ךָ (qāḏ·še·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6944: A sacred place, thing, sanctity

but our enemies
צָרֵ֕ינוּ (ṣā·rê·nū)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's 6862: Narrow, a tight place, a pebble, an opponent

have trampled
בּוֹסְס֖וּ (bō·ws·sū)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 947: To tread down, trample

Your sanctuary.
מִקְדָּשֶֽׁךָ׃ (miq·dā·še·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 4720: A consecrated thing, place, a palace, sanctuary, asylum


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