  While lattice QCD allows for reliable results at small momentum transfers
(large quark separations), perturbative QCD is restricted to large momentum
transfers (small quark separations). The latter is determined up to a reference
momentum scale $\Lambda$, which is to be provided from outside, e.g. from
experiment or lattice QCD simulations. In this article, we extract
$\Lambda_{\overline{\textrm{MS}}}$ for QCD with $n_f=2$ dynamical quark flavors
by matching the perturbative static quark-antiquark potential in momentum space
to lattice results in the intermediate momentum regime, where both approaches
are expected to be applicable. In a second step, we combine the lattice and the
perturbative results to provide a complete analytic parameterization of the
static quark-antiquark potential in position space up to the string breaking
scale. As an exemplary phenomenological application of our all-distances
potential we compute the bottomonium spectrum in the static limit.
