Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thy people hath had but little of thy Sanctuary in possession, for our enemies have taken it in:

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.

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 wherefore hast thou led us out of thy way? Wherefore hast thou hardened our hearts, that we fear thee not? Be at one with us again, for thy servants' sake that are of the generation of thine heritage. 18 Thy people hath had but little of thy Sanctuary in possession, for our enemies have taken it in: 19 And we are become even as we were from the beginning: but thou art not their LORD, for they have not called upon thy name.

Cross References

Psalm 74:3-7

Lift up thy feet, that thou mayest utterly destroy every enemy which hath done evil in thy sanctuary.

Exodus 19:4-6

'Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians and how I took you up upon Eagles' wings, and have brought you unto myself.

Deuteronomy 7:6

For thou art a holy nation unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a several people unto himself of all nations that are upon the earth.

Deuteronomy 26:19

and to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, in name and honour: that thou mayest be a holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath said."

Isaiah 62:12

And they shall be called a people of holiness, redeemed of the LORD. And thou shalt be called a haunted city and not forsaken.

Isaiah 64:11-12

Our holy house which is our beauty, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt up: yea, all our commodities and pleasures are wasted away.

Lamentations 1:10

{Yod} The enemy hath put his hand to all the precious things that she had, yea even before her eyes came the Heathen in and out of the Sanctuary: whom thou, nevertheless, hast forbidden to come within thy congregation.

Lamentations 4:1

{Aleph} O how is the gold become so dim? How is the goodly colour of it so sore changed? And the stones of the sanctuary thus scattered in the corner of every street?

Daniel 8:24

He shall be mighty and strong, but not in his own strength. He shall destroy above measure, and all that he goeth about, shall prosper: he shall slay the strong and holy people.

Matthew 24:2

Jesus said unto them, "See ye not all these things? Verily I say unto you, There shall not be here left one stone upon another, that shall not be cast down."

1 Peter 2:9

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a peculiar people, that ye should show the virtues of him that called you out of darkness into his marvelous light,

Revelation 11:2

but the court which is without the temple cast out, and mete it not: for it is given unto the gentiles, and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty two months.

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