Parallel Verses
Amplified
Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for [only] a little while;
Our adversaries have trampled it down.
New American Standard Bible
Our adversaries have
King James Version
The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
Holman Bible
for a little while,
but our enemies have 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.
A Conservative Version
Thy holy people possessed [it] but a little while. Our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
American Standard Version
Thy holy people possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
Bible in Basic English
Why have evil men gone over your holy place, so that it has been crushed under the feet of our haters?
Darby Translation
Thy holy people have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
Julia Smith Translation
For a little While the people of thy holy place possessed it: our adversaries trod down thy holy place.
King James 2000
The people of your holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{Your holy people} took possession for little [while]; our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.
Modern King James verseion
The people of Your holiness have possessed it but a little while; our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thy people hath had but little of thy Sanctuary in possession, for our enemies have taken it in:
NET Bible
For a short time your special nation possessed a land, but then our adversaries knocked down your holy sanctuary.
New Heart English Bible
Your holy people possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
The Emphasized Bible
For a short time only, did thy holy people hold possession, - Our adversaries, trod down thy sanctuary!
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
For a little while did Thy holy people possess, Our adversaries have trodden down Thy sanctuary.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 63:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer For Mercy
17
O Lord, why do You cause us to stray from Your ways
And harden our heart from fearing You [with reverence and awe]?
Return for Your servants’ sake, the tribes of Your heritage.
Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for [only] a little while;
Our adversaries have trampled it down.
We have become like those over whom You have never ruled,
Like those who were not called by Your name.
Cross References
Psalm 74:3-7
Turn your footsteps [quickly] toward the perpetual ruins;
The enemy has damaged everything within the sanctuary.
Exodus 19:4-6
‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to Myself.
Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a holy people [set apart] to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be a people for His own possession [that is, His very special treasure].
Deuteronomy 26:19
and that He will set you high above all the nations which He has made, for praise, fame, and honor: and that you shall be a holy people [set apart and consecrated] to the Lord your God, just as He has spoken.”
Isaiah 62:12
And they will call them “The Holy People,
The Redeemed of the Lord”;
And you will be called “Sought Out, A City Not Deserted.”
Isaiah 64:11-12
Our holy and beautiful house [the temple built by Solomon],
Where our fathers praised You,
Has been burned by fire;
And all our precious objects are in ruins.
Lamentations 1:10
The adversary has spread out his hand
Over all her precious and desirable things;
For she has seen the [Gentile] nations enter her sanctuary (the Jerusalem temple)—
That they should not enter into Your congregation [not even in the outer courts].
Lamentations 4:1
How the pure gold has changed!
The sacred stones [of the temple] are poured out and scattered
At the head of every street.
Daniel 8:24
“His power will be mighty, but not by his own power;
And he will corrupt and destroy in an astonishing manner
And [he will] prosper and do exactly as he wills;
He shall corrupt and destroy mighty men and the holy people.
Matthew 24:2
And He said to them,
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a consecrated nation, a [special] people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies [the wonderful deeds and virtues and perfections] of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
Revelation 11:2
But leave out the court [of the Gentiles] which is outside the temple and do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles (the nations); and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months (three and one-half years).