A Psalm of Asaph. God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance, defiled Your holy Temple, and reduced Jerusalem to ruins.
Isaiah 63:18 - Tree of Life Version Briefly Your holy people possessed it— our foes have trampled Your Sanctuary. 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. |
A Psalm of Asaph. God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance, defiled Your holy Temple, and reduced Jerusalem to ruins.
Then they will call them The Holy People, The Redeemed of Adonai, and you will be called, Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.
We have become like those over whom You have never ruled, like those not called by Your Name. Oh, that You would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at Your presence!
Our holy and beautiful House, where our fathers praised You, Has been burned with fire— all our pleasant things are laid waste.
Your holy cities became a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
“Many shepherds ruined My vineyard. They trampled My property. They made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
The enemy has stretched his hand over all her treasures. She even saw nations enter her sanctuary— those You had commanded not to enter Your congregation.
How dulled is the gold, how tarnished the fine gold. The sacred gems are poured out at the corner of every street.
“Then I heard a holy one speaking and another holy one said to the one who was speaking, ‘How long will the vision last, the daily sacrifice be forsaken because of rebellion, the sanctuary be surrendered and the host be trampled?’
His power will be mighty, but it will not be by his strength alone. He will cause extraordinary devastation, and succeed in whatever he does. He will destroy both the powerful and the holy people.
I will lay waste your cities and devastate your sanctuaries. I will not smell your soothing aromas.
So the high places of Isaac will become desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste, and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”
“Don’t you see all these?” He responded to them. “Amen, I tell you, not one stone will be left here on top of another—every one will be torn down!”
They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led away captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
that He will set you high above all the nations He has made, for praise, fame and honor; and that you are to be a holy people to Adonai your God, as He has promised.”
For you are a holy people to Adonai your God—from all the peoples on the face of the earth, Adonai your God has chosen you to be His treasured people.
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the One who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
But do not measure the court outside the Temple—leave it out, because it has been given to the nations, and they shall trample the holy city for forty-two months.