Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the LORD—the perpetrators of land theft will themselves have no inheritance in the redistributed land at the restoration. The ancient practice of casting lots to divide the land (as Joshua did when settling Canaan) here becomes a tool from which the wicked are excluded, reversing their expectation of future inheritance. This verse reinforces the principle that actions have covenantal consequences; those who violated others' inheritances forfeit their own. The phrase 'in the assembly of the LORD' connects judgment to the covenant community's future existence, suggesting that restoration involves both judgment of the wicked and renewal of the faithful. The prophecy thus addresses not only destruction but the nature of the restored community, which will be just and equitable by contrast.

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