“This is your lot, the portion measured to you From Me,” 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.
- BSB This is your lot, the portion I have measured to you,” declares the LORD, “because you have 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.
- 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 portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.”
- Ps 9:17The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
- Matt 24:51and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.
- Jer 2:32“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.
- Ps 11:6On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
- Isa 28:15“Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’”
- Jer 7:4–8Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.’
- Jer 2:13“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
- Jer 10:14Every man has become brutish and without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
- Deut 32:16–18They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.
- Hab 2:18–19“What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?
- Mic 3:11Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on 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 had done great things in Egypt,
- Isa 17:4“It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.
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