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Isaiah 63:18

18 For a little while your people possessed your holy place, but now our enemies have trampled down your sanctuary.

Isaiah 63:18 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
18 The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
English Standard Version (ESV)
18 Your holy people held possession for a little while; our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.
New Living Translation (NLT)
18 How briefly your holy people possessed your holy place, and now our enemies have destroyed it.
The Message Bible (MSG)
18 For a while your holy people had it good, but now our enemies have wrecked your holy place.
American Standard Version (ASV)
18 Thy holy people possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
18 Your holy people possessed the land for a little while. Our enemies have trampled on your holy place.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
18 Your holy people had a possession for a little while, [but] our enemies have trampled down Your sanctuary.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
18 For a little while your holy people possessed the land. But now our enemies have torn your temple down.

Isaiah 63:18 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 63:18

The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little
while
Either the land of Canaan, which the Jews, the Lord's holy people, whom he had separated from others, possessed about fourteen hundred years, which was but a little while in comparison of "for ever", as was promised; or they enjoyed it but a little while in peace and quiet, being often disturbed by their neighbours; or else the sanctuary, the temple, as it is to be supplied from the next clause, which stood but little more than four hundred years: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary;
the temple; the first temple was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar; and the second temple by the Romans; and Antiochus, and Pompey, and others, profaned it, by treading in it.

Isaiah 63:18 In-Context

16 But you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us or Israel acknowledge us; you, LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name.
17 Why, LORD, do you make us wander from your ways and harden our hearts so we do not revere you? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes that are your inheritance.
18 For a little while your people possessed your holy place, but now our enemies have trampled down your sanctuary.
19 We are yours from of old; but you have not ruled over them, they have not been called by your name.

Cross References 3

  • 1. Deuteronomy 4:26; Deuteronomy 11:17
  • 2. S Isaiah 28:18; Daniel 8:13; S Luke 21:24
  • 3. S Leviticus 26:31; S 2 Kings 25:9; Psalms 74:3-8
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