'Land' in the Bible

The Lord rules forever! The nations are driven out of his land.

As for God's chosen people who are in the land, and the leading officials I admired so much --

It is as if I have been given fertile fields or received a beautiful tract of land.

They experience his favor; their descendants inherit the land.

Where would I be if I did not believe I would experience the Lord's favor in the land of the living?

Trust in the Lord and do what is right! Settle in the land and maintain your integrity!

Wicked men will be wiped out, but those who rely on the Lord are the ones who will possess the land.

But the oppressed will possess the land and enjoy great prosperity.

Surely those favored by the Lord will possess the land, but those rejected by him will be wiped out.

The godly will possess the land and will dwell in it permanently.

Rely on the Lord! Obey his commands! Then he will permit you to possess the land; you will see the demise of evil men.

Hear my prayer, O Lord! Listen to my cry for help! Do not ignore my sobbing! For I am dependent on you, like one residing outside his native land; I am at your mercy, just as all my ancestors were.

May the Lord protect him and save his life! May he be blessed in the land! Do not turn him over to his enemies!

You, by your power, defeated nations and settled our fathers on their land; you crushed the people living there and enabled our ancestors to occupy it.

For they did not conquer the land by their swords, and they did not prevail by their strength, but rather by your power, strength and good favor, for you were partial to them.

Your sons will carry on the dynasty of your ancestors; you will make them princes throughout the land.

He picked out for us a special land to be a source of pride for Jacob, whom he loves. (Selah)

Yet God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. He will scoop you up and remove you from your home; he will uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)

A psalm of David, written when he was in the Judean wilderness. O God, you are my God! I long for you! My soul thirsts for you, my flesh yearns for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.

He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the river on foot. Let us rejoice in him there!

They say to themselves, "We will oppress all of them." They burn down all the places where people worship God in the land.

He did amazing things in the sight of their ancestors, in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.

He sent swarms of biting insects against them, as well as frogs that overran their land.

He brought them to the border of his holy land, to this mountainous land which his right hand acquired.

A psalm of Asaph. O God, foreigners have invaded your chosen land; they have polluted your holy temple and turned Jerusalem into a heap of ruins.

You cleared the ground for it; it took root, and filled the land.

He decreed it as a regulation in Joseph, when he attacked the land of Egypt. I heard a voice I did not recognize.

I am the Lord, your God, the one who brought you out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide and I will fill it!'

For the music director; written by the Korahites, a psalm. O Lord, you showed favor to your land; you restored the well-being of Jacob.

Certainly his loyal followers will soon experience his deliverance; then his splendor will again appear in our land.

Yes, the Lord will bestow his good blessings, and our land will yield its crops.

Are your amazing deeds experienced in the dark region, or your deliverance in the land of oblivion?

They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land, and they murder the fatherless.

The sea is his, for he made it. His hands formed the dry land.

I will favor the honest people of the land, and allow them to live with me. Those who walk in the way of integrity will attend me.

Each morning I will destroy all the wicked people in the land, and remove all evildoers from the city of the Lord.

saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance."

Israel moved to Egypt; Jacob lived for a time in the land of Ham.

They executed his miraculous signs among them, and his amazing deeds in the land of Ham.

Their land was overrun by frogs, which even got into the rooms of their kings.

He sent hail along with the rain; there was lightning in their land.

They ate all the vegetation in their land, and devoured the crops of their fields.

He struck down all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of their reproductive power.

amazing feats in the land of Ham, mighty acts by the Red Sea.

They rejected the fruitful land; they did not believe his promise.

They shed innocent blood -- the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted by bloodshed.

He turned streams into a desert, springs of water into arid land,

and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.

As for his people, he turned a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into springs of water.

He announced that he would do mighty deeds for his people, giving them a land that belonged to other nations.

I will serve the Lord in the land of the living.

I am like a foreigner in this land. Do not hide your commands from me!

Indeed, the scepter of a wicked king will not settle upon the allotted land of the godly. Otherwise the godly might do what is wrong.

He gave their land as an inheritance, as an inheritance to Israel his people.

and gave their land as an inheritance, for his loyal love endures,

How can we sing a song to the Lord in a foreign land?

I cry out to you, O Lord; I say, "You are my shelter, my security in the land of the living."

I spread my hands out to you in prayer; my soul thirsts for you in a parched land.

Teach me to do what pleases you, for you are my God. May your kind presence lead me into a level land.

The Lord protects those residing outside their native land; he lifts up the fatherless and the widow, but he opposes the wicked.