Isaiah 63:18

Isaiah 63:18 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
• New International Version (NIV)For a little while your people possessed your holy place, but now our enemies have trampled down your sanctuary.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Your holy people held possession for a little while; our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Your holy people have possessed it but a little while; Our adversaries have trodden down Your sanctuary.

Context of Isaiah 63:18

16Yet you are our Father, even though Abraham does not know us and Israel doesn’t recognize us. You, Lord, are our Father; your name is Our Redeemer from Ancient Times. 17Why, Lord, do you make us stray from your ways? You harden our hearts so we do not fear you. Return, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage. Your holy people had a possession for a little while, but our enemies have trampled down your sanctuary. 19We have become like those you never ruled, like those who did not bear your name.

Isaiah 63:18 word by word

לַמִּצְעָ֕ר יָרְשׁ֖וּ עַם־קָדְשֶׁ֑ךָ צָרֵ֕ינוּ בּוֹסְס֖וּ מִקְדָּשֶֽׁךָ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• The peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
• of thy holinessקֹ֫דֶשׁqôdesh · holinessH6944
• have possessedיָרַשׁyârash yârêsh · to possess: possessH3423
• but a little whileמִצְעָרmits‛âr · littleH4705
• our adversariesצַרtsar tsâr · enemyH6862
• have trodden downבּוּסbûs · to trampleH947
• thy sanctuaryמִקְדָּשׁmiqdâsh miqqedâsh · sanctuaryH4720

Cross-references for Isaiah 63:18

• Isaiah 62:12And they will be called the Holy People, the Lord’s Redeemed; and you will be called Cared For, A City Not Deserted.
• Exodus 19:4‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.
• Deuteronomy 7:6For you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be his own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
• Deuteronomy 26:19that he will elevate you to praise, fame, and glory above all the nations he has made, and that you will be a holy people to the Lord your God as he promised.”
• Daniel 8:24His power will be great, but it will not be his own. He will cause outrageous destruction and succeed in whatever he does. He will destroy the powerful along with the holy people.
• 1 Peter 2:9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
• Isaiah 64:11Our holy and beautiful temple, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned down, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.
• Psalms 74:3Make your way to the perpetual ruins, to all that the enemy has destroyed in the sanctuary.
• Lamentations 1:10The adversary has seized all her precious belongings. She has even seen the nations enter her sanctuary — those you had forbidden to enter your assembly.
• Lamentations 4:1How the gold has become tarnished, the fine gold become dull! The stones of the temple lie scattered at the head of every street.
• Matthew 24:2He replied to them, “Do you see all these things? Truly I tell you, not one stone will be left here on another that will not be thrown down.”
• Revelation 11:2But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Don’t measure it, because it is given to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.

Commentaries on Isaiah 63:18

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 18The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while "It is little that they have taken possession of thy holy mountain" - The difficulty of the construction in this place is acknowledged on all hands. Vitringa prefers that sense as the least exceptionable which our translation has expressed; in which however there seems to be a great defect; that is, the want of that in the speaker's view must have been the principal part of the proposition…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18The people of thy holiness - The people who have been received into solemn covenant with thee. Have possessed it but a little while - That is, the land meaning that the time during which they had enjoyed a peaceable possession of it, compared with the perpetuity of the promise made, was short. Such is the idea given to the passage by our translators. But there is considerable variety in the interpretation of the passage among expositors. Lowth renders it…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-19Verses 15-19 They beseech him to look down on the abject condition of their once-favoured nation. Would it not be glorious to his name to remove the veil from their hearts, to return to the tribes of his inheritance? The Babylonish captivity, and the after-deliverance of the Jews, were shadows of the events here foretold. The Lord looks down upon us in tenderness and mercy. Spiritual judgments are more to be dreaded than any other calamities; and we…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 18The people were supposed to be holy, but their lack of holiness had led to destruction. The holy place was the temple, which the Babylonians destroyed in 586 BC (Isaiah 64:11; 2 Kings 25:1–21).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1818. people of ... holiness--Israel dedicated as holy unto God (Is 62:12; De 7:6). possessed--namely, the Holy Land, or Thy "sanctuary," taken from the following clause, which is parallel to this (compare Is 64:10, 11; Psa 74:6-8). thy--an argument why God should help them; their cause is His cause.Read the comment

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Commentaries on Isaiah 63

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings