Catholic Public Domain Version
"They have possessed your holy people as if it were nothing. Our enemies have trampled your sanctuary. "
— Isaiah 63:18, Catholic Public Domain Version
“The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.”
“Thy holy people 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.”
Gaze down from heaven, and behold from your holy habitation and from your glory. Where is your zeal, and your strength, the fullness of your heart and of your compassion? They have held themselves back from me.
For you are our Father, and Abraham has not known us, and Israel has been ignorant of us. You are our Father, O Lord our Redeemer. Your name is beyond all ages.
Why have you allowed us to stray from your ways, O Lord? Why have you hardened our heart, so that we do not fear you? Return, for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance.
They have possessed your holy people as if it were nothing. Our enemies have trampled your sanctuary.
We have become as we were in the beginning, when you did not rule over us, and when we were not called by your name.