Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
In Context
1Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.
3We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
Cross References
Psalms 79:1O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance; Thy holy temple have they defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
Isaiah 5:17Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat.
Jeremiah 6:12And their houses shall be turned unto others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah.
Ezekiel 7:21And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.
Zephaniah 1:13And their wealth shall become a spoil, and their houses a desolation: yea, they shall build houses, but shall not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but shall not drink the wine thereof.
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 →