Isaiah 63:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.”
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“For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Thy holy people possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“For a little while did Thy holy people possess, Our adversaries have trodden down Thy sanctuary.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 63:18 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 19:4‘You have seen for yourselves what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.
- Deuteronomy 7:6For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.
- Deuteronomy 26:19that He will set you high in praise and name and honor above all the nations He has made, and that you will be a holy people to the LORD your God, as He has promised.
- Psalms 74:3Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed.
- Psalms 79:1The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
- Isaiah 62:12And they will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of The LORD; and you will be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.
- Isaiah 64:9Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!
- Isaiah 64:10Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
- Isaiah 64:11Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.
- Lamentations 1:10The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary— those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.
- Lamentations 4:1How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner.
- Daniel 8:24His power will be great, but it will not be his own. He will cause terrible destruction and succeed in whatever he does. He will destroy the mighty men along with the holy people.
- Matthew 24:2“Do you see all these things?” He replied. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”
- 1 Peter 2:9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
- Revelation 11:2But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.
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