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Isaiah 63:19
We have become like those You never ruled,
from A Prayer for Mercy, Isaiah 63:15-19
What it says

They feel like a people never ruled by God and never called by His name.

What it is doing

This verse closes the chapter with the deepest expression of covenant alienation and need.

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,