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Your holy people possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
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A 'Little While'?
Commentators explain that while Israel possessed the promised land for centuries, it is called a 'little while' in comparison to God's promise of an 'everlasting inheritance.' This seeming failure of God's promise is the foundation of their desperate plea for His intervention.
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Isaiah
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19th Century
Anglican
The people of thy holiness ... —Better, For a little while have they possessed thy sanctuary, or, with a various…
Baptist
O LORD, why have you made us err from your ways, and hardened our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inhe…
16th Century
Protestant
For a little time. It is remarkable that the people should call it “a little time;” for fourteen hundred years had elapsed since the peopl…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The people of your holiness have possessed it but a littlewhileEither the land of Can…
Presbyterian
They implore him to look down on the miserable condition of their once-favored nation. Would it not be glorious to his name to remove the veil from…
13th Century
Catholic
Who is this. Here he begins to address the separation of the wicked from the good in the execution of the promised salvat…
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