Isaiah 63:19
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New International Version (©2011)
We are yours from of old; but you have not ruled over them, they have not been called by your name.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Sometimes it seems as though we never belonged to you, as though we had never been known as your people.

English Standard Version (©2001)
We have become like those over whom you have never ruled, like those who are not called by your name.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
We have become like those over whom You have never ruled, Like those who were not called by Your name.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
We have become like those You never ruled over, like those not called by Your name.

International Standard Version (©2012)
For a long time we have been those you do not rule, those who are not called by your name.

NET Bible (©2006)
We existed from ancient times, but you did not rule over them, they were not your subjects.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
We have become like those whom you never ruled, like those who are not called by your name.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
We are yours: you never bore rule over them; they were not called by your name.

American King James Version
We are yours: you never bore rule over them; they were not called by your name.

American Standard Version
We are become as they over whom thou never barest rule, as they that were not called by thy name.

Douay-Rheims Bible
We are become as in the beginning, when thou didst not rule over us, and when we were not called by thy name.

Darby Bible Translation
We have become like those over whom thou never barest rule, those not called by thy name.

English Revised Version
We are become as they over whom thou never barest rule; as they that were not called by thy name.

Webster's Bible Translation
We are thine: thou never didst bear rule over them; they were not called by thy name.

World English Bible
We have become as they over whom you never bear rule, as those who were not called by your name.

Young's Literal Translation
We have been from of old, Thou hast not ruled over them, Not called is Thy name upon them!

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 19. - We are thine. There is no "thine" in the original, and so important a word cannot possibly be supplied from without. Translate, We are as those over whom thou hast not ruled from of old, as those upon whom thy Name has not been called; i.e. we have lost all our privileges - we have become in God's sight no better than the heathen - he has forgotten that we were ever his people.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

We are thine,.... Thy children, thy people, thy subjects. Some read it, taking a word from the next clause, "we are thine of old", or "from everlasting" (h); as the Lord's special people are, being chosen by him in Christ before the foundation of the world, and taken into an everlasting covenant by him, when he became their God, and they his people; agreeably to which is the Targum,

"we are thy people that were of old;''

so Kimchi reads the words: "thou never barest rule over them"; the Heathens that oppressed them; they never acknowledged God as their King as they did, or were subject to him as they were; and therefore had no claim to protection from him as they had:

they were not called by thy name; they were not called the people of God, nor the children of God, nor the servants or subjects of God; or, "thy name is not called upon them" (i); or they called after it; nor did they call upon it, but served other gods. The Targum is,

"thou hast not given unto the people the doctrine of thy law, neither is thy name called upon by them.''

(h) "non fuimus tui ab omni aevo", Grotius; "a seculo", Pagninus, Montanus. (i) "nec invocatum est nomen tuum super eos", Pagninus, Montanus.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

19. thine … never—rather, "We are Thine from of old; Thou barest not rule over them" [Barnes]. Lowth translates, "We for long have been as those over whom Thou hast not ruled, who are not called by Thy name"; "for long" thus stands in contrast to "but a little while" (Isa 63:18). But the analogy of Isa 63:18 makes it likely that the first clause in this verse refers to the Jews, and the second to their foes, as English Version and Barnes translate it. The Jews' foes are aliens who have unjustly intruded into the Lord's heritage.

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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.

Acts 15:17 that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, even all the Gentiles who bear my name, says the Lord, who does these things' --
Isaiah 63:18 For a little while your people possessed your holy place, but now our enemies have trampled down your sanctuary.
Isaiah 64:1 Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you!
Isaiah 65:1 "I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me; I was found by those who did not seek me. To a nation that did not call on my name, I said, 'Here am I, here am I.'
Jeremiah 14:9 Why are you like a man taken by surprise, like a warrior powerless to save? You are among us, LORD, and we bear your name; do not forsake us!