Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance has been turned over to foreigners; our houses to outsiders.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
In Context
1Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us. Consider and look kindly upon our disgrace.
3We have become orphans without a father; our mothers are like widows.
Cross References
Psalms 79:1Unto the end. For those who will be changed. The testimony of Asaph. A Psalm.
Isaiah 5:17And the lambs will pasture in proper order, and new arrivals will eat from the deserts turned into fertile lands.
Jeremiah 6:12And their houses will be given over to others, with both their lands and their wives. For I will extend my hand over the inhabitants of the earth, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 7:21And I will give it into the hands of foreigners as a spoil, and to the impious of the earth as a prey, and they will defile it.
Zephaniah 1:13And their strength will be in plundering, and their houses in the desert. And they will build houses and not dwell in them, and they will plant vineyards and not drink their wine.
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 →