Isaiah 63:18

In 11 translations

BSB

For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.

KJV

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

WEB

Your holy people possessed it but a little while. Our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.

ASV

Thy holy people possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

LSV

For a little while Your holy people possessed, || Our adversaries have trodden down Your sanctuary.

YLT

For a little while did Thy holy people possess, Our adversaries have trodden down Thy sanctuary.

DBY

Thy holy people have possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

DRC

They have possessed thy holy people as nothing: our enemies have trodden down thy sanctuary.

GNV

The people of thine holinesse haue possessed it, but a litle while: for our aduersaries haue troden downe thy Sanctuarie.

JPS

Thy holy people they have well nigh driven out, our adversaries have trodden down Thy sanctuary.

LXXE

that we may inherit a small part of thy holy mountain.

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Original-language editions

WLC

לַמִּצְעָ֕ר יָרְשׁ֖וּ עַם־קָדְשֶׁ֑ךָ צָרֵ֕ינוּ בּוֹסְס֖וּ מִקְדָּשֶֽׁךָ׃

LXX-Br

ἵνα μικρὸν κληρονομήσωμεν τοῦ ὄρους τοῦ ἁγίου σου.

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• Psalms 74:3–7Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed. Your foes have roared within Your meeting place; they have unfurled their banners as signs, like men wielding axes in a…
• Lamentations 4:1How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner.
• Matthew 24:2“Do you see all these things?” He replied. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”
• Deuteronomy 26:19that He will set you high in praise and name and honor above all the nations He has made, and that you will be a holy people to the LORD your God, as He has promised.
• Isaiah 62:12And they will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of The LORD; and you will be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.
• Exodus 19:4–6‘You have seen for yourselves what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself. Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of…
• 1 Peter 2:9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
• Lamentations 1:10The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary— those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.
• Isaiah 64:11–12Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins. After all this, O LORD, will You restrain Yourself? Will You keep silent and afflict…
• Deuteronomy 7:6For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.
• Revelation 11:2But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.
• Daniel 8:24His power will be great, but it will not be his own. He will cause terrible destruction and succeed in whatever he does. He will destroy the mighty men along with the holy people.

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