Isaiah 63:18
For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place,
What it says
God's people possessed His holy place only briefly before enemies trampled it.
What it is doing
This verse ties the prayer to the desecration and loss of the sanctuary.
In context
15Look down from heaven and see, 16Yet You are our Father, 17Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways 18For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, 19We have become like those You never ruled,