Isaiah 34:17

And He hath cast the goral (lot) for them, 1 and His Yad hath made the land assignment unto them by measuring line; 1 they shall possess it ad olam, 1 from dor to dor shall they dwell therein.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.

In Context

16Search ye out in the Sefer Hashem, and read; 1 no one of these creatures shall fail, 1 none shall lack her mate; 1 for My mouth hath commanded, 1 and His Ruach hath gathered them. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:9For Hashemʼs chelek is His people; 1 Ya'akov is the chevel (allotment) of His nachalah. 1

Psalms 78:55He cast out the Goyim also before them, 1 and divided by measure a nachalah for them, 1 and made the Shivtei Yisroel 1 to dwell in their ohalim. 1

Isaiah 17:14And hinei at erev, terror; 1 and before boker, he [that terrorizes] is no more. 1 This is the chelek of them that loot us, 1 and the goral (lot) of them that plunder us.

Jeremiah 13:25This is thy goral (lot), 1 the portion of thy measures from Me, saith Hashem; 1 because thou hast forgotten Me, 1 and trusted in sheker (falsehood). 1

Acts 17:26And Hashem made from one ancestor every nation of anashim dwelling pnei kol haAretz. And Hashem has set the zmanim and the fixed boundaries of their habitations, + 17:26 Dt 32:8; Job 12:23

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 34:10-17

Threatenings against God's Enemies. ( b. c. 720.) 9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. 10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. 11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of… Read the whole commentary →

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