World English Bible
"Your holy people possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary."
— Isaiah 63:18, World English Bible
“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. ”
“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 see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where are your zeal and your mighty acts? the yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.
For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn't know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us: you, Yahweh, are our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.
O Yahweh, why do you make us to err from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance.
Your holy people possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
We have become as they over whom you never bear rule, as those who were not called by your name.