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. 
possessed it but # 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: