Isaiah 63:18 · KJV
“The people of thy holiness have possessed {it} but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.”
— Isaiah 63:18
O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, {and} hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
We are {thine}: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name. {they...: Heb. thy name was not called upon them}
Isaiah 63 — Context
Doubtless thou {art} our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, {art} our father, our redeemer; thy name {is} from everlasting. {our redeemer...: or, our redeemer from everlasting is thy name}
17O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, {and} hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
18The people of thy holiness have possessed {it} but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
19We are {thine}: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name. {they...: Heb. thy name was not called upon them}
Cross References
Psalms 74:3-7
Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; {even} all {that} the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
Isaiah 62:12
And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
Matthew 24:2
And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
Exodus 19:4-6
Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and {how} I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.
Lamentations 1:10
The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen {that} the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command {that} they should not enter into thy congregation. {pleasant: or, desirable}
Isaiah 64:11-12
Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
Deuteronomy 26:19
And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.
Daniel 8:24
And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. {holy...: Heb. people of the holy ones}