Quotes about Possession
lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.
— Proverbs 5:10
Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
— Proverbs 5:17
A lazy man does not roast his game, but a diligent man prizes his possession.
— Proverbs 12:27
He has allotted their portion; His hand has distributed it by measure. They will possess it forever; they will dwell in it from generation to generation.
— Isaiah 34:17
For you will spread out to the right and left; your descendants will dispossess the nations and inhabit the desolate cities.
— Isaiah 54:3
Then all your people will be righteous; they will possess the land forever; they are the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified.
— Isaiah 60:21
For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.
— Isaiah 63:18
Behold! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy for yourself my field in Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.’
— Jeremiah 32:7
So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out seventeen shekels of silver.
— Jeremiah 32:9
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land.”
— Jeremiah 32:15
They came in and possessed it, but they did not obey Your voice or walk in Your law. They failed to perform all that You commanded them to do, and so You have brought upon them all this disaster.
— Jeremiah 32:23
Concerning the Ammonites, this is what the LORD says: “Has Israel no sons? Is he without heir? Why then has Milcom taken possession of Gad? Why have his people settled in their cities?
— Jeremiah 49:1