Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
In Context
1Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.
3We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.
Cross References
Psalms 79:1A psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathens are come into thy inheritance, they have defiled thy holy temple: they have made Jerusalem as a place to keep fruit.
Isaiah 5:17And the lambs shall feed according to their order, and strangers shall eat the deserts turned into fruitfulness.
Jeremiah 6:12And their houses shall be turned over to others, with their lands and their wives together: for I will stretch for my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord.
Ezekiel 7:21And I will give it into the hands of strangers for spoil, and to the wicked of the earth for a prey, and they shall defile it.
Zephaniah 1:13And their strength shall become a booty, and their houses as a desert: and they shall build houses, and shall not dwell in them: and they shall plant vineyards, and shall not drink the wine of 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 →