New American Standard Bible 2020
Isaiah 63:18
18Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for a little while, Our adversaries have 1trampled it down.
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
16For You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us And Israel does not recognize us. You, Lord, are our Father, Our Redeemer from ancient times is Your name. 17Why, Lord, do You cause us to stray from Your ways And harden our heart from fearing You? Return for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage. Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for a little while, Our adversaries have trampled it down. 19We have become like those over whom You have never ruled, Like those who were not called by Your name.
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לַמִּצְעָ֕ר יָרְשׁ֖וּ עַם־קָדְשֶׁ֑ךָ צָרֵ֕ינוּ בּוֹסְס֖וּ מִקְדָּשֶֽׁךָ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Isaiah 63:18
- Isaiah 62:12And they will call them, “The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord”; And you will be called, “Sought Out, A City Not Abandoned.”
- Exodus 19:4‘You yourselves 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 to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His personal possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
- Deuteronomy 26:19and that He will put you high above all the nations which He has made, for glory, fame, and honor; and that you shall be a consecrated people to the Lord your God, just as He has spoken.”
- Daniel 8:24And his power will be mighty, but not by his own power, And he will destroy to an extraordinary degree And be successful and do as he pleases; He will destroy mighty men and the holy people.
- 1 Peter 2:9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
- Isaiah 64:11Our holy and beautiful house, Where our fathers praised You, Has been burned by fire; And all our precious things have become a ruin.
- Psalms 74:3Step toward the irreparable ruins; The enemy has damaged everything in the sanctuary.
- Lamentations 1:10The adversary has stretched out his hand Over all her precious things, For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary, The ones whom You commanded That they were not to enter Your congregation.
- Lamentations 4:1How dark the gold has become, How the pure gold has changed! The sacred stones are spilled out At the corner of every street.
- Matthew 24:2But He responded and said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, not one stone here will be left upon another, which will not be torn down.”
- Revelation 11:2Leave out the courtyard which is outside the temple and do not measure it, because it has been 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
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