이사야 63:18의 주석

For [but] a short time, Your holy people inherited They had their greatness and their inheritance for a short time.

למצער A little while.

trampled [The term בוססו denotes] trampled underfoot.

למצער ידשו עם קדשך The people of thy holiness have possessed the holy land but for a little while, and now the enemies have trodden down, etc. Some explain the verse thus: The people of Thy holiness has been dispossessed (by the enemy) for a small thing, or for a short time,²⁷מצער means small or little, and admits of the rendering a little while as well as a little thing. and this latter explanation is right.