Lamentations 5:2
Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
In Context
1Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.
3We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
Cross References
Psalms 79:1A Psalm. Of Asaph. O God, the nations have come into your heritage; they have made your holy Temple unclean; they have made Jerusalem a mass of broken walls.
Isaiah 5:17Then the lambs will get food as in their grass-lands, and the fat cattle will be feasting in the waste places.
Jeremiah 6:12And their houses will be handed over to others, their fields and their wives together: for my hand will be stretched out against the people of the land, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 7:21And I will give it into the hands of men from strange lands who will take it by force, and to the evil-doers of the earth to have for themselves; and they will make it unholy.
Zephaniah 1:13And their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:2-17
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 1 Remember, O Lord , what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. 4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. 5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. 6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not;… Read the whole commentary →