~ possessed it but ~ 23_ISA_63_18  The people of thy holiness have possessed [it] but a little while, our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. #, 24_JER_32_23  And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do, therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them, #,