Isaiah 63:19

Loneliness Discouragement and depression

¹⁷ Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.

¹⁸ For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.

We have become like those You never ruled, like those not called by Your name.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: We have become like those You never ruled, like those not called by Your name.
KJV: We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.
WEB: We have become like those over whom you never ruled, like those who were not called by your name.
ASV: We are become as they over whom thou never barest rule, as they that were not called by thy name.
DARBY: We have become [like those] over whom thou never barest rule, those not called by thy name.
BLB: From of old we have been You had not ruled over them, those not called by Your name.

ÅB: Vi er blitt som de du aldri har hersket over, som de ditt navn ikke har vært nevnt over.
[^1]: JES 19, 14; 24, 20. JER 48, 26.
OTB: Vi har blitt et folk som du ikke har hersket over, akkurat som de som ikke har blitt kalt ved ditt navn.
B1930: Vi er blitt som de du aldri har hersket over, som de ditt navn ikke har vært nevnt over.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Romans 9:4
the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.
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Psalms 135:4
For the LORD has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession.
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Psalms 79:6
Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,
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Acts 14:16
In past generations, He let all nations go their own way.
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Isaiah 65:1
“I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me; I was found by those who did not seek Me. To a nation that did not call My name, I said, ‘Here I am! Here I am!’
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Ephesians 2:12
remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
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Acts 15:17
so that the remnant of men may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by My name, says the Lord who does these things
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Amos 9:12
that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that bear My name,” declares the LORD, who will do this.
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