John Trapp on Isaiah 63:18

Ver. 18. The people of thine holineſs have poſſeſſed it but a little while] viz. In reſpect of that perpetuity promiſed them by Thee, Gen. 17.8. & 26.3. & 28.13. Exod. 32.13. Beſides the many calamities that have befaln us whereby we have had ſmall enjoyment of this thine inheritance. All the daies of the afflicted are evil, Prov. 15.15. their life lifeleſs, and not to be reckoned on.

Our adverſaries have trodden down thy Sanctuary] This they did in the daies of Antiochus, but eſpecially about the time of our Saviours incarnation: when the ſcepter departed from Judah, Pompey with his Army entered into the Sanctuary, Herod got the governement, the Romans ſat up their Enſignes and Statues in the holy of holies, &c. This deſolation of the ſecond Temple the Jews do here bewail: but we have cauſe to rejoyce, for that by Chriſt the whole world is now become a Temple, and every place a goodly Oratory, 1 Tim. 2.8.