O God, the heathen have come into thy inheritance; they have defiled thy holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
Isaiah 63:18 - Revised Standard Version Thy holy people possessed thy sanctuary a little while; our adversaries have trodden it down. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary but a little while; our adversaries have trodden it down. American Standard Version (1901) Thy holy people possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. Common English Bible Why did the wicked bring down your holy place? Why did our enemies trample your sanctuary? Catholic Public Domain Version They have possessed your holy people as if it were nothing. Our enemies have trampled your sanctuary. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They have possessed thy holy people as nothing: our enemies have trodden down thy sanctuary. |
O God, the heathen have come into thy inheritance; they have defiled thy holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
And they shall be called The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord; and you shall be called Sought out, a city not forsaken.
We have become like those over whom thou hast never ruled, like those who are not called by thy name.
Thy holy cities have become a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Be not exceedingly angry, O Lord, and remember not iniquity for ever. Behold, consider, we are all thy people.
Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trampled down my portion, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
The enemy has stretched out his hands over all her precious things; yea, she has seen the nations invade her sanctuary, those whom thou didst forbid to enter thy congregation.
How the gold has grown dim, how the pure gold is changed! The holy stones lie scattered at the head of every street.
Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to the one that spoke, “For how long is the vision concerning the continual burnt offering, the transgression that makes desolate, and the giving over of the sanctuary and host to be trampled under foot?”
His power shall be great, and he shall cause fearful destruction, and shall succeed in what he does, and destroy mighty men and the people of the saints.
And I will lay your cities waste, and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing odors.
the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste, and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”
But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another, that will not be thrown down.”
they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led captive among all nations; and Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
that he will set you high above all nations that he has made, in praise and in fame and in honor, and that you shall be a people holy to the Lord your God, as he has spoken.”
“For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample over the holy city for forty-two months.