Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritaunce is turned to the straungers, and our houses to the aliaunts.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
In Context
1Call to remembraunce (O Lorde) what we haue suffred, consider and see our confusion.
3We are become carefull and fatherlesse, and our mothers are as the wydowes.
Cross References
Isaiah 5:17Then shall the sheepe eate as they were wont, and the riche mens landes that were layde waste shall straungers deuour.
Zephaniah 1:13Therfore their goodes shalbe spoyled, & their houses layed waste: they shall buylde houses, and not dwell in them, they shall plante vineyardes, but not drinke the wine therof.
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 →