Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

The people of Your holiness have possessed it but a little while; our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.

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 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
The people
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 Jehovah, why have You made us wander from Your ways. You harden our heart from Your fear? For Your servants' sake, return the tribes of Your inheritance. 18 The people of Your holiness have possessed it but a little while; our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary. 19 We are from forever; You never ruled over them; Your name was never called on them.


Cross References

Psalm 74:3-7

Lift up Your feet to the never-ending ruins, even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary.

Exodus 19:4-6

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

Deuteronomy 7:6

For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Jehovah your God has chosen you to be a special people to Himself above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 26:19

and to make you high above all nations which He has made, in praise and in name and in honor, and that you may be a holy people to Jehovah your God, even as He has spoken.

Isaiah 62:12

And they will call them, The Holy People, The Redeemed of Jehovah; and you will be called, Sought Out, a city not forsaken.

Isaiah 64:11-12

The house of our holiness and our beauty, where our fathers praised You, has become a burning of fire; and all our pleasant things are laid waste.

Lamentations 1:10

The enemy has spread out his hand upon all her desirable things; for she has seen the nations enter her holy place, whom You commanded that they should not enter into Your congregation.

Lamentations 4:1

How the gold has become dim; the fine gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.

Daniel 8:24

And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power. And he shall destroy marvelously, and shall prosper and work, and destroy the mighty and the holy people.

Matthew 24:2

And Jesus said to them, Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, There shall not be left here one stone on another that shall not be thrown down.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for possession, so that you might speak of the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

Revelation 11:2

But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it was given to the nations. And they will trample the holy city forty-two months.

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