Isaiah 63:19
Good News Translation
You treat us as though you had never been our ruler, as though we had never been your people.

New Revised Standard Version
We have long been like those whom you do not rule, like those not called by your name.

Contemporary English Version
We act as though you had never ruled us or called us your people.

New American Bible
Too long have we been like those you do not rule, on whom your name is not invoked.

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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Psalm 79:6 Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that have not known thee: and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.

Psalm 135:4 For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself: Israel for his own possession.

Jeremiah 10:25 Pour out thy indignation upon the nations that have not known thee, and upon the provinces that have not called upon thy name: because they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have destroyed his glory.

Acts 14:16 Who in times past, suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

Romans 9:4 Who are Israelites: to whom belongeth the adoption as of children and the glory and the testament and the giving of the law and the service of God and the promises:

Ephesians 2:12 That you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the conversation of Israel and strangers to the testament, having no hope of the promise and without God in this world.

they were not called by thy name.

Isaiah 65:1 They have sought me that before asked not for me, they have found me that sought me not. I said: Behold me, behold me, to a nation that did not call upon my name.

Amos 9:12 In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David, that is fallen: and I will close up the breaches of the walls thereof, and repair what was fallen: and I will rebuild it as in the days of old.

Acts 15:17 That the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all nations upon whom my name is invoked, saith the Lord, who doth these things.

Context
A Prayer for Mercy
18They have possessed thy holy people as nothing: our enemies have trodden down thy sanctuary. 19We are become as in the beginning, when thou didst not rule over us, and when we were not called by thy name.
Cross References
Acts 15:17
That the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all nations upon whom my name is invoked, saith the Lord, who doth these things.

Isaiah 63:18
They have possessed thy holy people as nothing: our enemies have trodden down thy sanctuary.

Isaiah 64:1
O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down: the mountains would melt away at thy presence.

Isaiah 65:1
They have sought me that before asked not for me, they have found me that sought me not. I said: Behold me, behold me, to a nation that did not call upon my name.

Jeremiah 14:9
Why wilt thou be as a wandering man, as a mighty man that cannot save? but thou, O Lord, art among us, and thy name is called upon by us, forsake us not.

Isaiah 63:18
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