Isaiah 63:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. ”

• Isaiah 63:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The people of thy holiness - The people who have been received into solemn covenant with thee. Have possessed it but a little while - That is, the land meaning that the time during which they...

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• Isaiah 63:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  The people of thy holiness have possessed [it] but a little (x) while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. (x) That is, in respect to the promise, which is perpetual: even though they h...

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• Isaiah 63:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Isaiah 63:15 to Isaiah 64:9 . A Fervent Prayer to Yahweh to Intervene again for His Children. The appeal rings like a litany, reminding Yahweh, who has withdrawn into His glorious heavenly palac...

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• Isaiah 63:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  The People of Thy holiness . Thy holy People. Figure of speech Enallage . See note on Exodus 3:5 . Reference to Pentateuch ( Deuteronomy 7:6 ; Deuteronomy 26:19 ).

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• Isaiah 63:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  18. For a little time. It is wonderful that the people should call it “a little time;” for fourteen hundred years had elapsed since the people began to possess that land. But we must take in...

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• Isaiah 63:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while "It is little that...

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• Isaiah 63:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  The people of thy holiness— Or, Thy holy people have possessed [ the land ] but for a little time, &c. Isaiah 63:19 . We have been as they over whom thou never bearest rule, and upon whom...

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• Isaiah 63:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. The people of thy holiness Israel dedicated as holy unto God ( Isaiah 62:12 ;...

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• Isaiah 63:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Glorious Future of the Jewish Race This concluding group of Chapter s is chiefly distinguished by glowing pictures of the future of Jerusalem, when the Jews shall be restored to their land aga...

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• Isaiah 63:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The people of thy holiness... — Better, For a little while have they possessed thy sanctuary, or, with a various reading, thy holy mountain. The plea is addressed to Jehovah, on the ground of H...

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• Isaiah 63:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XXV A LAST INTERCESSION AND THE JUDGMENT Isaiah 63:7 through Isaiah 66:1-24 WE might well have thought, that with the section we have been considering the prophecy of Israel's Redemp...

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• Isaiah 63:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Salvation Obstructed by Rebellion Isaiah 63:10-19 The exhortation of the Apostle against grieving the Holy Spirit is based on Isaiah 63:10 . See Ephesians 4:30 . There is no limit to the grac...

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• Isaiah 63:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The last section of Isaiah (63-66) sets forth anew the operation of the principle of discrimination. All the blessing which has been described can result only from holiness, and ere that can be estab...

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• Isaiah 63:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Reader! do you want a specimen of prayer? Here is a most blessed one; in which both supplication and praise, holy pleadings and waitings, are most beautifully blended. And what an unanswerable argume...

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• Isaiah 63:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while ,.... Either the land of Canaan, which the Jews, the Lord's holy people, whom he had separated from others, possessed about fourteen h...

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• Isaiah 63:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The people of thy holiness have possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. Ver. 18. The people of thine holiness have possessed it but a little while, ] vi...

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• Isaiah 63:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  O Lord, why hast thou made us to err Suffered us to err; from thy ways Thy commandments. And hardened our heart from thy fear That is, the fear of thee? Why hast thou withdrawn thy grace, and l...

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• Isaiah 63:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Earnest Pleadings. B. C. 706.       15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation...

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• Isaiah 63:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The people of thy holiness; or, thy holy people, as being set apart for his servants; holiness being to be understood for a covenant separation from other people. But a little while. i.e. 1....

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• Isaiah 63:18 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Isaiah 63:1-6 . Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? This that is glorious in his apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, m...

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• Isaiah 63:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Isaiah 63:1 . With dyed garments from Bozrah. Not the Bozrah in Moab, but Bozrah, the capital of Idumea. Perhaps it was because Judas Maccabeus slaughtered twenty thousand of them in one battle, t...

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• Isaiah 63:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  SECTION IX .— THE JUDGMENT OF GOD ON IDUMAEA ( Isaiah 63:1-23 ). EXPOSITION Isaiah 63:1-23 A JUDGMENT ON IDUMAEA . Isaiah had already, in the first portion of his prophe...

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• Isaiah 63:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The people of Thy holiness have possessed it but a little while, rather, "Down to a small remnant they," the enemies, "possess Thy holy people," using the inheritance of Israel to their own advantage...

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• Isaiah 63:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 2:9 ; Daniel 8:24 ; Deuteronomy 26:19 ; Deuteronomy 7:6 ; Exodus 19:4-6 ; Isaiah 62:12 ; Isaiah 64:11 ; Isaiah 64:12 ; Lamentations 1:10 ; Lamentations 4:1 ; Matthew 24:2 ; Psalms...

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• Isaiah 63:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  People — The people set apart for his servants. A little while — Comparatively to the promise, which was for ever. Sanctuary — The temple.

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