This is your lot, the portion I have measured to you,” declares the LORD, “because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.
Parallel translations
- WEB This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me,” says Yahweh; “because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.”
- KJV This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
- NKJV This is your lot, The portion of your measures from Me,” says the Lord, “Because you have forgotten Me And trusted in falsehood.
- NASB “This is your lot, the portion measured to you From Me,” declares the Lord, “Because you have forgotten Me And trusted in falsehood.
- NLT This is your allotment, the portion I have assigned to you,” says the Lord, “for you have forgotten me, putting your trust in false gods.
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Quick answer
This is the portion God assigns them because they forgot Him and trusted in lies.
Overview
Their judgment is the just 'lot' measured out for forgetting God and trusting falsehood. Forgetting God and embracing lies, whether idols or false security, is the heart of their sin. The verse warns that what we trust in place of God ultimately determines our portion.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Job 20:29This is the wicked man’s portion from God, the inheritance God has appointed him.”
- Ps 9:17The wicked will return to Sheol—all the nations who forget God.
- Matt 24:51Then he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- Jer 2:32Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.
- Ps 11:6On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.
- Isa 28:15For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”
- Jer 7:4–8Do not trust in deceptive words, chanting: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’
- Jer 2:13“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
- Jer 10:14Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.
- Deut 32:16–18They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
- Hab 2:18–19What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
- Mic 3:11Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”
- Deut 32:37–38He will say: “Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,
- Ps 106:21–22They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,
- Isa 17:4“In that day the splendor of Jacob will fade, and the fat of his body will waste away,
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