American Standard Version
"Thy holy people possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. "
— Isaiah 63:18, American Standard Version
“The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.”
“Your holy people possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.”
“For a short time your special nation possessed a land, but then our adversaries knocked down your holy sanctuary.”
“They have possessed thy holy people as nothing: our enemies have trodden down thy sanctuary.”
“Why have evil men gone over your holy place, so that it has been crushed under the feet of our haters?”
“The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.”
Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where are thy zeal and thy mighty acts? the yearning of thy heart and thy compassions are restrained toward me.
For thou art our Father, though Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us: thou, O Jehovah, art our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is thy name.
O Jehovah, why dost thou make us to err from thy ways, and hardenest our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
Thy holy people possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
We are become as they over whom thou never barest rule, as they that were not called by thy name.