Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Your holy people had a possession
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.

Amplified


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

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

קדשׁ 
Qodesh 
Usage: 470

ירשׁ ירשׁ 
Yarash 
Usage: 231

it but a little while
מצער 
Mits`ar 
Usage: 5

בּוּס 
Buwc 
Usage: 12

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Prayer For Mercy

17 O LORD, why do you make us wander from your ways and harden our heart, so that we fear you not? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your heritage. 18 Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for a little while,
Our adversaries have trodden it down.
19 We have become like those over whom you have never ruled, like those who are not called by your name.

Cross References

Psalm 74:3-7

Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!

Exodus 19:4-6

You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself.

Deuteronomy 7:6

"For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 26:19

and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised."

Isaiah 62:12

And they shall be called The Holy People, The Redeemed of the LORD; and you shall be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.

Isaiah 64:11-12

Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, has been burned by fire, and all our pleasant places have become ruins.

Lamentations 1:10

The enemy has stretched out his hands over all her precious things; for she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary, those whom you forbade to enter your congregation.

Lamentations 4:1

How the gold has grown dim, how the pure gold is changed! The holy stones lie scattered at the head of every street.

Daniel 8:24

His power shall be great--but not by his own power; and he shall cause fearful destruction and shall succeed in what he does, and destroy mighty men and the people who are the saints.

Matthew 24:2

But he answered them, "You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down."

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Revelation 11:2

but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.

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