Isaiah 34:17

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He has cast the lot for them, his hand has portioned it out to them with the line; they shall possess it forever, from generation to generation they shall live in it.

Cross References

Psalm 78:55

He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

Isaiah 17:13

The nations roar like the roaring of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and whirling dust before the storm.

Isaiah 17:14

At evening time, lo, terror! Before morning, they are no more. This is the fate of those who despoil us, and the lot of those who plunder us.

Isaiah 34:10

Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; no one shall pass through it forever and ever.

Isaiah 34:11

But the hawk and the hedgehog shall possess it; the owl and the raven shall live in it. He shall stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plummet of chaos over its nobles.

Jeremiah 13:25

This is your lot, the portion I have measured out to you, says the Lord, because you have forgotten me and trusted in lies.

Acts 13:19

After he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance

Acts 17:26

From one ancestor he made all nations to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live,

Deuteronomy 32:9

the Lord's own portion was his people, Jacob his allotted share.

Joshua 18:8

So the men started on their way; and Joshua charged those who went to write the description of the land, saying, “Go throughout the land and write a description of it, and come back to me; and I will cast lots for you here before the Lord in Shiloh.”