Isaiah 63:18

WEB

¹⁸Your holy people possessed it but a little while. Our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.

KJV

¹⁸The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

BSB

¹⁸For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.

FBV

¹⁸Your Temple belonged to us for a little while, but then our enemies invaded and destroyed it.

Extra References

Psalms 74:3-7

³Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary. ⁴Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs. ⁵They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees. ⁶Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers. ⁷They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.

Deuteronomy 26:19

¹⁹He will make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be a holy people to the LORD your God, as he has spoken.

Matthew 24:2

²But he answered them, “You see all of these things, don’t you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down.”

Exodus 19:4-6

⁴‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to myself. ⁵Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine; ⁶and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”

Lamentations 1:10

¹⁰The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things; for she has seen that the nations have entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.

Isaiah 62:12

¹²They will call them “The Holy People, The LORD’s Redeemed”. You will be called “Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken”.

Isaiah 64:11-12

¹¹Our holy and our beautiful house where our fathers praised you is burned with fire. All our pleasant places are laid waste. ¹²Will you hold yourself back for these things, LORD? Will you keep silent and punish us very severely?

Lamentations 4:1

¹How the gold has become dim! The most pure gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.

Deuteronomy 7:6

⁶For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

1 Peter 2:9

⁹But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.