World English Bible
Isaiah 63:18
“Your holy people possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.”
Verse in context — Isaiah 63
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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.
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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.
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Your holy people possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
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We have become as they over whom you never bear rule, as those who were not called by your name.
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