Verse (Click for Chapter) 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. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible 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. Jump to Previous Adversaries Crushed Driven Enemies Evil Feet Haters Holiness Holy Little Nigh Possess Possessed Sanctuary Trampled TroddenJump to Next Adversaries Crushed Driven Enemies Evil Feet Haters Holiness Holy Little Nigh Possess Possessed Sanctuary Trampled TroddenIsaiah 63 1. Christ shows who he is2. What his victory over his enemies 7. And what his mercy toward his church 10. In his just wrath he remembers his free mercy 15. The church, in her prayer 17. And complaint, professes her faith (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 whileלַמִּצְעָ֕ר (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 Links Isaiah 63:18 NIVIsaiah 63:18 NLT Isaiah 63:18 ESV Isaiah 63:18 NASB Isaiah 63:18 KJV Isaiah 63:18 BibleApps.com Isaiah 63:18 Biblia Paralela Isaiah 63:18 Chinese Bible Isaiah 63:18 French Bible Isaiah 63:18 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Isaiah 63:18 Your holy people possessed it (Isa Isi Is) |