Isaiah Chapter 63 verse 18 Holy Bible
Thy holy people possessed `it' but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
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Why have evil men gone over your holy place, so that it has been crushed under the feet of our haters?
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Thy holy people have possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
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The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
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Your holy people possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
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For a little while did Thy holy people possess, Our adversaries have trodden down Thy sanctuary.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - The people of thy holiness; or, thy holy people (comp. Isaiah 62:9; Isaiah 63:15: 64:11). Some critics read har, "mountain," instead of ' am, "people," and translate, "But for a little while have they" (i.e. thy servants) "had possession of thy holy mountain." The general meaning is the same in either case. "Israel, God's people, has held Palestine but for a little while" - a few centuries - and now the heathen have been allowed to make themselves masters of it, (comp. Ezra 10:8).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) The people of thy holiness . . .--Better, For a little while have they possessed thy sanctuary, or, with a various reading, thy holy mountain. The plea is addressed to Jehovah, on the ground of His promise that the inheritance was to be an everlasting one. Compared with that promise, the period of possession, from Joshua and David to the fall of the monarchy, was but as a "little while." (Comp. Psalm 90:4.) The seeming failure of the promise was aggravated by the fact that the enemies of Israel had trodden down the sanctuary.
