Isaiah 63:17-19

Jubilee Bible 2000

¹⁷ O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways? Hast thou hardened our heart to thy fear? Return for thy slaves, for the tribes of thine inheritance.

¹⁸ The people of thy holiness have possessed the promised land but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

¹⁹ We have been like those over whom thou didst never rule, who were never called by thy name.