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 Jehovah, why do you let us wander from your ways and become so stubborn that we are unable to respect you? Return for the sake of your servants. They are the tribes that belong to you. 18 Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for a little while,
Our adversaries have trodden it down.
19 We have become like those whom you never ruled, like those who are not called by your name.

Cross References

Psalm 74:3-7

Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.

Exodus 19:4-6

You have seen what I did to Egypt and how I carried you on the wings of eagles and brought you to me.

Deuteronomy 7:6

You are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Jehovah your God has chosen you to be his own special people out of all the nations of the earth.

Deuteronomy 26:19

He will set you high above all nations that he has made, for praise, fame, and honor. You will be a consecrated people to Jehovah your God, as he has spoken.

Isaiah 62:12

They will be called the holy people reclaimed (repurchased) by Jehovah! You will be called searched for, a City Not Deserted.

Isaiah 64:11-12

Our holy and beautiful Temple where our ancestors praised you has been burned to the ground. All that we valued has been ruined.

Lamentations 1:10

The hand of her enemies is stretched out over all her desired things. She sees the nations come into her holy place. Whom you gave orders that they were not to come into the meeting of your people.

Lamentations 4:1

How dark the gold has become! How changed is the best gold! The stones of the holy place are dropping out at the top of every street.

Daniel 8:24

He will be mighty, but not by his own power. He will destroy excessively (cause great devistation) and will prosper and do anything he wants to do. He will destroy the mighty ones and the holy people.

Matthew 24:2

He said to them: Do you see these things? I tell you, not one stone will be left upon another. They will all be thrown down.

1 Peter 2:9

You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a people for God's own possession, that you may show the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Revelation 11:2

Do not measure the court outside the temple for it is given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.

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