Isaiah 63:18

What does Isaiah 63:18 mean?

A plain-English look at Isaiah 63:18 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Why have evil men gone over your holy place, so that it has been crushed under the feet of our haters?

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

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

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

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

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

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

Context

v.17O Jehovah, why dost thou make us to err from thy ways, and hardenest our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

v.18This passage

v.19We are become as they over whom thou never barest rule, as they that were not called by thy name.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Deuteronomy 7:6

    For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God: Jehovah thy God hath chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

  • Lamentations 4:1

    How is the gold become dim! how is the most pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.

  • Lamentations 1:10

    The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: For she hath seen that the nations are entered into her sanctuary, Concerning whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thine assembly.

  • Psalms 74:3

    Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins, All the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.

  • Deuteronomy 26:19

    and to make thee high above all nations that he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that thou mayest be a holy people unto Jehovah 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 do his pleasure; and he shall destroy the mighty ones and the holy people.

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